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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…
Olive 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…
They’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…
Between 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…
The 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…
A 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…
Cape 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…
A 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…