if I go to a nice Italian restaurant, I get nice olive oil and bread for dipping before my grilled chicken arrives. The Mediterranean diet is good. But if I coat chicken in bread crumbs and fry it in olive, that’s bad. Why?

Question

I’m consuming the exact same ingredients – olive oil, bread, and chicken. But fir some reason, one style is healthy and the other is not. What makes it unhealthy? Why aren’t both methods “Mediterranean”?

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Answer 1

Apparently a high quality, extra virgin olive oil used for cooking is not a bad thing; and I imagine using a wholegrain bread would be better than white bread as well.

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/is-olive-oil-good-for-cooking#bottom-line