Jan 13, 2014 | Olive Oil News
Victorian boutique olive growers Peter and Helen Wright will remember 2013 for three reasons – record production, superb quality and national acclaim. The couple – Peter, an information technology consultant, and Helen, a retired nursing sister –...
Jan 13, 2014 | Olive Oil News
Emergency workers say they had to use olive oil to grease up and free a naked man who got stuck in a washing machine during a game of hide and seek. Mooroopna police, in northern Victoria, say the man was attempting to hide from his partner when he climbed into the...
Jan 13, 2014 | Olive Oil News, Uncategorised
As the New Year dawns, FoodNavigator predicts the top five drivers of the European food industry in the year ahead.
Dec 31, 2013 | International News/Trends, Olive Oil News, Research
Olive oil and olive pomace oil imports to India in the first half of the fiscal were 5650 metric tonnes (MT), up from 5073 MT in the previous fiscal, registering a growth rate of 11.40%. While Q-1 (April-June) registered a growth of 25%, Q-2 (June-September) had a...
Dec 31, 2013 | International News/Trends, Olive Oil News, Olives and Health
Last year Dr Prokopios Magiatis and Dr Eleni Melliou from the Athens University announced their discovery of a new fast and accurate tool to measure key health promoting compounds found in extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) such as oleocanthal and oleacein. Using...
Dec 31, 2013 | International News/Trends, Olive Oil News, Research
New York’s first “early harvest release,” hosted by De Medici Imports at the headquarters for the National Association for the Specialty Food Trade, welcomed olive oil producers, experts, chefs, and writers to taste new oils from the Mediterranean’s first harvest this...
