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While we specialize in cold pressed olive oil Be sure to check out our delicious olive tapenadades and flavored olive oil too.
Choose from our ever growing list of flavored olive oil. Right now we specialize in:
Lemon Flavored Olive Oil which is great in salad dressings or on fish.
Jalapeno Flavored Olive Oil is an excellent choice for spicy dressings and dips.
Basil Flavored Olive Oil is great for dipping bread into.
Olive products have additional benefits to their delicious taste, they provide benefits to your health. Olives are packed full of antioxidants which can benefit your digestive system and help your body fight against free radicals. Eating olives and using olive oil is a great addition to your diet.
Flavored Olive Oil and Olive Tapenades are a easy and tasty add on to any dish: salada, sandwiches, soups or pastas. Olive oil is also good for barbequeing with. For preperation information and recipes just click on our Recipes section.
Extra virgin olive oil sounds exotic doesn't it? What comes to mind when you hear these words? I picture someone pressing olives that are barely ripe, how about you? In fact extra virgin olive oil means that the oil has less than one percent of acid. Essentially the acids reduce the flavor in the olives, whish is why they also subject the olive oil to blind taste tests as part of the certification process. The blind taste tests are similar to wine taste tests.
Read up on the history of olives and the products made from them on our history page.
Olive leaf extract comes from the leave of olive trees and was used in ancient times to treat various health issues. Again the leaf is packed with free radical fighting antioxidants and is considered to be medicinal.
Olive oil comes in many different varieties from flavorful to bland or virgin to extra light. As with most foods the unrefined olive oil is the better one for flavor and nutrition. The refined one usually uses heat and chemicals to extract the last available amount of oil from the already pressed and repressed olive mash. Before we get into the different processes involved, let us look at the varieties.
Extra virgin is the best grade. The good grade olives are pressed for the first time with nothing more than the original and natural cold press method that has been around for thousands of years. The oil has less than one percent acidity and the best flavor that is certified by a taster. You can read more on this unrefined oil here
Read more about the different varieties and which ones are pure unrefined and which ones are heavily processed using chemical solvents and intense heat and pressure.Our site is meant to educate you the reader so that you can make an informed decision when you make make your next purchase. We also list some of the finest oils and olive extracts available for sale, so that you can be assured of the very best. We are currently on a buying trip that will make sure you get the best possible products from our web site. As we have recently added olive leaf extract to our inventory it has some wonderful qualities that you may want to read up on.
Coming soon... the history of the olive tree - the origins of the tree and the ideal growing conditions. Other uses for the olive and the different varieties of olives. What society was the first to cultivate them.
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