[re]

> a 50 litre barrel ... At least a year's supply for them

That's an unfathomable amount of olive oil to me! To finish off the barrel within a year between the two of them, they'd each have to be consuming 68 mL (4.6 tablespoons) of olive oil daily, providing 62 grams of fat.

[adrian_b]

That is a pretty normal quantity for a human.

For instance I control carefully the kind and the amount of fat that I eat. About 90% of my daily intake of fat comes from 50 mL of EV olive oil + 20 mL of cold-pressed sunflower oil.

There is a fraction of cold-pressed sunflower oil in order to provide enough linoleic acid and enough vitamin E. Eating only olive oil would require at least 100 mL daily, which would provide too many calories for a sedentary lifestyle.

So, with 70 mL of oil per day plus small amounts of fat from the rest of the food you get from fat about a third of the daily intake of energy for a sedentary lifestyle, which corresponds with most recommendations.

[brian_cunnie]

I consume about 67 mL of olive oil per day; I buy 6 liters of olive oil every 90 days. I'm type II diabetic, diet-controlled, which means I have to get my calories mostly from fats because I'm on a restricted carbohydrate diet.