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A nutrition policy expert has urged bakers to switch to healthy oils for fat replacement in bakery to make up for under-consumption and pre-empt future regulation.
Across the board, consumers are embracing natural and organic products more and more, with natural/organic retail sales reaching $81.3 billion in 2012, up 13.5% from the year before.
As if the squeezed middle classes hadn’t suffered enough of late at the hands of George Osborne and co, now a shortage of their favourite foods threatens to leave their…
The YMCA-YWCA Joint Advocacy Initiative (JAI), in co-operation with the Alternative Tourism Group (ATG), has ended its annual Olive Picking Program. The more than 130 activists/participants of the program come…
There is grave concern in Europe’s olive oil sector over the first appearance there of a plant disease said to have already infected tens of thousands of olive trees –…
Financial woes coming from all sides continue to take their toll on Argentina’s olive oil industry. With inflation outpacing the devaluation of the peso, producers are struggling to compete with…
A proposed new quality seal will help protect Spanish olive oil from “smear campaigns” by new producer countries, according to one of its main proponents, the regional government of Andalusia.
These are the days when olive harvest in Italy — and in all the Mediterranean area where the clever early-picking habit gained ground — is really getting going, despite the…
The harvest of olives for oil is under way in California, as growers are reporting good yields and good fruit quality. The table olive harvest has been more spotty, as…
The world of olive oil is like the Wild West. The “liquid gold,” in particular extra virgin olive oil, is a sought after commodity, with an increasing demand spurred on…