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Thanks , I know all of that. I buy from checked sources, premium price and I buy locally produced in California (about 2 hour drive from me ). When I lived in Europe I also bought from small family operated places.
BUT, even if it was "refined", it can not even be compared to Canola "oil" in any shape or form. ; ) I have no intention of eating artificially produced oil, no reason actually - why ? Olive oil has so many health benefits and I personally LOVE the taste and smell. I even use it on my skin if I get any eczema or sunburn and all is healed in a jiffy.
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@jim18 Exactly. The word "processed" is heavily loaded. What we call "processed meats" have a lot of fat, salt, nitrates, etc. added, and have been demonstrated to have a negative impact on health (even a credible correlation with prostate cancer if consumed to excess). But a lot of food goes through *some* kind of processing that's either harmless or even beneficial, and as you mentioned, that includes many elements of the Mediterranean diet.
Personally, I enjoy unpasteurised cheeses and juices (which are legal here in Canada, as in the EU), but I also acknowledge that the extra processing of pasteurisation makes them a little safer. And the extra processing of fermentation made water safe in the old days (you were far more likely to get cholera, polio, or other water-borne diseases from pure well water than from fermented drinks like beer).
tl;dr It's complicated.