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Cobram Estate (https://cobramestate.com) California Mission Extra Virgin Olive Oil was named the World’s Healthiest Extra Virgin Olive Oil at the 2017 Health & Food Extra Virgin Olive Oil Awards Competition in Málaga Costa Del Sol, Spain.
The Co-op has been mocked for a “meaningless” label on its bottles of own-brand olive oil, which has gone viral online. The label contains just 31 words but devotes 11 of them either to “oil” or “olive”. The resulting gibberish has been condemned by plain English campaigners and an image of the label has been…
The European Union, together with the Spanish Inter-Professional Table Olive Organization, INTERACEITUNA, and Michelin-starred chef and internationally-recognised culinary innovator, José Andrés, announced a new campaign to deliver a tasty message to US consumers – “A tasty message from Europe. Have an Olive Day!”.
A Mediterranean diet can almost halve your risk of becoming obese, a landmark study has found. The diet rich in vegetables, nuts, grains and olive oil slashes the likelihood of you getting too fat by 43%. Even without doing any more exercise, people can dramatically cut their risk of getting chubby simply by adopting the…
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 the world stage. https://www.oliveoiltimes.com/olive-oil-business/olive-oil-producers-small-croatian-island-strike-gold-together/56902?utm_source=Olive+Oil+Times&utm_campaign=a833b382a9-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfd25322ac-a833b382a9-213160813
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 no bearing on its quality and should not be a factor when determining its organoleptic characteristics. https://www.oliveoiltimes.com/olive-oil-basics/change-olive-oil-tasting-glass-see-red/56919
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 work together to restore their groves, produce high-quality olive oil and establish a model of environmental stewardship.
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 a blog post this week. So could it seriously consider banning the word from food labels altogether, as several commentators have advised?
All ONZ grower members should now have received Certification documentation, with submissions open from 29 May onwards. Don’t miss the opportunity to have your oil wear the trusted OliveMark quality guarantee. Documentation is also available here , along with more information on ONZ Certification.