May 26, 2017 | Diet/Food, International News/Trends, Olives and Health
A Mediterranean diet can almost halve your risk of becoming obese, a landmark study has found. The diet rich in vegetables, nuts, grains and olive oil slashes the likelihood of you getting too fat by 43%. Even without doing any more exercise, people can dramatically...
May 26, 2017 | Awards, International News/Trends, Olive Oil News
Olive oil producers from the Croatian island of Šolta joined forces to submit a single entry to NYIOOC 2017, winning a Gold Award and placing its Šoltansko maslinovo ulje on the world stage. Olive Oil Producers from Small Croatian Island Strike Gold, Together...
May 26, 2017 | International News/Trends, Olive Oil News
To conduct a sensory evaluation of an olive oil sample, an analyst will smell it, then taste it, but one should never consider the color of the oil, which has no bearing on its quality and should not be a factor when determining its organoleptic characteristics....
May 26, 2017 | International News/Trends, Labelling, Olive business
Mislabelling composition dominated cases in the EU Food Fraud Network (FFN), according to the 2016 annual report.
May 26, 2017 | Environment, General Olive News, International News/Trends, Olive business
Five years ago, a group of neighboring farmers in Sierra de Cazorla, Spain saw their 500-year old olive trees slowly dying. They took courses in organic farming and decided to work together to restore their groves, produce high-quality olive oil and establish a model...
May 26, 2017 | Diet/Food, International News/Trends, Labelling, Olives and Health
“If we were looking for an easy answer and widespread agreement on the definition of ‘healthy,’ we didn’t find it [at a public meeting last month],” observed the FDA in a blog post this week. So could it seriously consider banning the word from food labels altogether,...
