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It turns out, there is a right way to properly taste test extra virgin olive oil. In this video, Food & Wine food stylist Julian Hensarling and olive oil expert Sara Jimenez show you the best way to taste test extra virgin olive oil, including how to aerate it in your mouth.
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00:03that's gonna be the sound bite for this whole thing just like a loop and so what
00:10you want to do is you really want to get the olive oil on your palate suck in
00:14that air and this is going to help aerate the extra virgin olive oil on
00:17your mouth yes you're doing good that's a great slurp so it helps aerate it in
00:21your mouth as well as helps you feel the bitterness and the polyphenol content so
00:25you might notice even a slight tickle so polyphenols are those antioxidants that
00:30are naturally occurring in extra virgin olive oil it can sometimes give you a
00:34little bit of that peppery kick in your throat give me one second mm-hmm I did
00:39not expect it would do that I felt that right up my nose

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