CAREFUL WITH OILS AND THEIR PROMISES

I have recommended olive oil as a healthful source of anti-oxidants, and to be sure it does have anti-oxidant abilities.  This is not an anecdotal report, but the antioxidant content of olive oil is measurable.  It is measured in ORAC, Oxygenated Radical Absorbancy Capacity.  The first person I ever heard report on ORAC values or the ORAC values of olive oil was Dr. Barry Sears, author and owner of the Zone Diet.  He claimed that extra virgin olive oil had 30,000 ORAC value.  Now I do not know in what form that olive oil measured such a high ORAC value, but checking the online database for ORAC values at phytochemicals.info, olive oil has a much smaller ORAC value than what Dr. Sears reported.  According to the phytochemicals.info site, olive oil has an ORAC value of 766 when prepared at home and with parsley.  When prepared at home and with basil, olive oil has an ORAC value of 684.  So I would love to know where he discovered that fact, if it is a fact, that olive oil has the highest ORAC value of any fruit or food.