Jun 8, 2017 | Environment, International News/Trends, Olive business, Technology/Science, Uncategorised
A British based company has replaced ocean destroying plastic microbeads with milled olive stones in an environmentally friendly hand wash made from ground olive kernels. You can read more about value-adding olive waste in the June edition of Olivegrower &...
May 18, 2017 | International News/Trends, Olive Oil News, Technology/Science
Using both science and anecdote, Patricia B. O’Hara has squeezed new stories out of the humble olive. O’Hara, the Amanda and Lisa Cross Professor of Chemistry, recently published The Chemical Story of Olive Oil (The Royal Society of Chemistry), written with two other...
Mar 17, 2017 | General Olive News, International News/Trends, Olive Oil News, Technology/Science
Precision agriculture and wi-fi connections to save olive trees. This, in short, is the mission carried out by Italian food tech startup called Elaisian, founded by three young entrepreneurs in November last year. “Thanks to an agronomic algorithm,” said Damiano...
Mar 10, 2017 | Environment, International News/Trends, Technology/Science
Agricultural tomato wastes could be used to produce valuable functional ingredients as part of a sustainable strategy that uses sustainable extraction methods and contributes to a bio-economy, say researchers. There’s a great R&D report on this topic in the March...
Mar 10, 2017 | General Olive News, International News/Trends, Technology/Science
Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of Amazon and noted space buff, plans to send olive oil into space in an experiment to determine how zero gravity affects food. Olive Oil Heads to Space on Bezos...
Jan 16, 2017 | Australia, Environment, Technology/Science
Despite delays, British Biotech Company Oxitec is still confident that their genetically modified strain of olive flies will reach further trial stages, but there’s a long way to go before growers can access these insects to their advantage. Oxitec’s...
