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ULTRA-High Polyphenol Olive Oil Offers Medicinal Properties

Bottle of Livo Oil

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A new Chilean Harvest crop of ULTRA-High polyphenol extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) is available online exclusively from Chicago-area based Livo Oil. Founder Mark Fenzel says, “It’s unfortunately not common knowledge, but as USDA’s own research plant physiologist Nasir Malek has stated, ‘Health benefits of olive oil are 99 percent related to the presence of phenolic compounds.’”

Fenzel states, “Olive oils are very, very far from being created equal, and our mission is finding the EVOO with the highest concentrations of beneficial polyphenols, which can be done only through third-party lab results, which are available on our website, and delivering it to our clients as soon after harvest as possible.”

The International Olive Council method defines more than 550 milligrams per kilogram as very high phenolic content, but Livo olive oil rates 624 milligrams. “High polyphenols have tremendous health benefits, and to achieve these polyphenol levels we not only concentrate on the variety of olives highest in polyphenols, in this case Coratina Olives, but we also push our grower for very early harvest oil which actually has a lower yield making this a special oil indeed. For the autism population, for example, this means that our oil can be a good fit into the Nemechek protocol, where high-polyphenol EVOO to decrease inflammation is a central ingredient,” says Fenzel.

For more information and a link to order, visit LivoOil.com.