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Registration is now open for the 2014 New York International Olive Oil Competition. Among commercial benefits for winning oils are inclusion in special NYIOOC displays at New York’s legendary gourmet…
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…
The Olive Oil Source, the industry leader in olive oil-related products, this week announced the launch of a new episode entitled “How Olive Oil is Made”. The video is the…