International News/Trends
Proof of quality for producers, Olives NZ Certification also provides a guarantee of authenticity for consumers via licensed use of the OliveMark® on certified products – and thereby a leading…
Read MoreOlive oil producers and other European food industry members have said they’re concerned about the UK’s traffic-light food labelling system because their products would be labelled as unhealthy. But nutrition…
Read MoreThey’re the giants of the olive world – 30-gram freaks that, according to farm co-op manager Alice Jaschke-Ferreri, are sometimes mistaken for plums. “You see something that big and nobody…
Read MoreBetween the mainly Empeltre-growing area of Bajo Aragón and the predominantly Arbequina growing area of Catalonia lies Sierra del Moncayo, where the local olive oil is said to be a…
Read MoreThe modern olive-oil industry in Israel is fairly young, but producers are seeing brilliant results and rising recognition. As more people around the world reach for a bottle of extra-virgin…
Read MoreA few fun facts about olives: olives have been around for thousands of years, appearing in one of the earliest cookbooks ever discovered! This was a 2000-year-old text by a…
Read MoreCape Town – The first olive orchard was planted in Paarl in 1896. A decade later the region achieved an accolade for the best olives in the British Empire. I…
Read MoreA study by the consumer rights watchdog Deco of 25 brands of olive oil found that one should not even have been labelled as olive oil, while four that were…
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