Olives and Health
Olive oil is a staple in the kitchen. Chances are, you have a bottle or two tucked away in the pantry somewhere. Well the truth is you can never have…
Consumption of sunflower oil rose 9.7% last year while that of olive oil fell nearly 1%, but olive oil remains by far the most used edible oil in Spanish households,…
Functional foods weathered the global economic recession better than most food categories despite a high product failure rate, according to a US-based branding and market expert.
Over the last year I have been writing about the controversy in Greece over the implementation of EU labeling regulation 432/2012 which states: “Olive oil polyphenols contribute to the protection…
More than 140,000 people – a third of them from beyond Spain – visited the Alimentaria food and drink trade fair in Barcelona and organizers say more than 5,000 of…
Spain, the largest maker of olive oil, set up a watchdog for “strategic” food industries to bring transparency to agricultural markets and help probe wrongdoings. Olives, olive oil and milk…
The risk of consuming harmful heavy metals by eating produce from China’s heavily polluted farmland is now so great that one Australian industry body has warned a parliamentary inquiry due…
First there was the press release in my inbox saying that butter is one of the healthy fats we should eat more of ”to encourage weight loss and optimum health”.…