[hinckley buzzard]

Cooking with olive oil is popular but the heat destroys much of the beneficial compounds. Better to use it in salad dressing etc. Or take a teaspoonful a day and be done with it.

[SamAdams76]

It's true that cooking with olive oil destroys much of the benefit but it's still much better than cooking with vegetable oils, which are full of transfats and other bad stuff.

I cook with avocado oil, which has a much higher smoke point than olive oil. It tends to be more expensive though.

As for olive oil, I have been using it as salad dressing for years. In fact, I don't have any salad dressing in my house at all. Just drizzle olive oil on top of any salad and you are good to go.