Olive oil as a laxative

Introduction: olive oil

Olive tree: botanical aspects and cultivation

Mature olive composition, nutritional properties

Olive harvest

Olive oil: chemical composition

Olive oil: properties and nutritional characteristics

Preparation of olive oil

Olive oil conservation

Pomace oil

Classification of olive oils, analysis and fraud

Olive oil as a laxative

Olive in herbal medicine - sea buckthorn

Cosmetic use: olive oil - Unsaponifiable with olive oil - Olive leaf extract

Olive oil has a mild laxative action; to obtain this quite unusual and normally not sought after effect, olive oil must be taken on an empty stomach and at doses of about 30 ml in the adult.

In order for it to behave like a laxative, olive oil must in fact be administered in important quantities, so that a small part escapes intestinal absorption; this, in fact, would nullify the effect in the successive tracts of intestine.

Precisely because of this ease of absorption, the use of olive oil as a laxative provides a considerable caloric intake to the body (about 267 calories per 30 ml), and may therefore be contraindicated to the obese and to people who follow low-calorie diets .