Olive oil: anti-inflammatory?
- Tuesday, September 06 2005 @ 07:33 AM CST
- Contributed by: filbert
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Researchers find anti-inflammatory chemical in extra-virgin olive oil:
A tasting experience at a molecular gastronomy meeting in Sicily led University of Pennsylvania biologist Gary Beauchamp to analyze freshly pressed extra-virgin olive oil, in which he found a chemical that acted like ibuprofen.How long before the FDA requires warning labels?He and his team named their discovery oleocanthal and found that, although it has a different chemistry, its effect is similar to that of the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory compound in the commercial pain-killer, they wrote in the science journal Nature.