International News/Trends
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…
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…
Mislabelling composition dominated cases in the EU Food Fraud Network (FFN), according to the 2016 annual report.
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…
Oldways: ‘It’s time we stopped tying ‘healthy’ to a formula of nutrients divorced from actual foods’
“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…
An Apulian startup, Olivhealth, developed a single-dose package containing extra virgin olive oil from organic secular olive trees for sportspeople, pregnant women, and children. https://www.oliveoiltimes.com/olive-oil-business/apulian-startup-promotes-secular-olive-trees-single-doses/57011
Despite challenging economic conditions and poor harvests, sales of European olive oil continue to rise with the increasing popularity of private label products. https://www.oliveoiltimes.com/olive-oil-business/private-label-price-hikes-drive-sales-europe/56739?utm_source=Olive+Oil+Times&utm_campaign=4ea16fff43-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfd25322ac-4ea16fff43-213160813
I am quite sure that when we hear of Trentino-Alto Adige/South Tyrol, most of us think of speck, strudel, and Muller-Thurgau. The same happens with the denomination of Veneto Valpolicella,…