Mediterranean Diet quiz

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1. 1 Easy

   What is the everyday dessert on the Mediterranean diet?

   Answer: Fresh fruit

   Why: Traditional sweets made with nuts, olive oil and honey were mostly saved for feast days.

2. 2 Medium

   Where was the scientist who popularized the Mediterranean diet from?

   Answer: United States

   Why: Keys was born in Colorado, yet he lived and worked in the Italian seaside village of Pioppi from 1963 to 1998.

3. 3 Hard

   Which machine now separates most olive oil from crushed olives?

   Answer: Centrifuge

   Why: EU labels may say 'first cold pressing' only for hydraulic-press oil made below 27 °C; centrifuged oil made that cool may say 'cold extraction'.

4. 4 Easy

   How often does the Mediterranean pyramid say to eat fish?

   Answer: Twice a week

   Why: The at-least-twice-a-week fish guidance arrived with Oldways' 2008 update of its Mediterranean pyramid.

5. 5 Medium

   How old was Ancel Keys when he died?

   Answer: 100

   Why: Keys made the cover of Time magazine in January 1961 for his work linking diet and heart disease.

6. 6 Hard

   Where in France did a 1990s heart trial test the Mediterranean diet?

   Answer: Lyon

   Why: After about 27 months, the Lyon trial was stopped early because the Mediterranean diet group was doing so much better.