Olive Oil
You gotta have good olive oil. You should have a cooking olive oil and you should have a finishing olive oil, like an extra-virgin olive oil - Emeril Lagasse
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7 Myths (and Truths) About Olive Oil
MYTHS, legends, half-truths and outright lies about olive oil so pervade our current conversation about food that an oleophile like me hardly knows where to begin to refute them. Here are just a few I’ve seen or heard recently: Most imported olive oil is an impostor, especially if it comes from Italy; instead it’s actually Moroccan crankcase oil or worse. You can’t cook with extra-virgin olive oil because it will either burst into flames or turn into a dreaded trans fat. Extra-virgin oil is from the first cold pressing, virgin oil from the second. A buttery taste means the oil is rancid. Extra-virgin is a good source of Omega-3 fatty acids.
None of that is correct.
Let’s…
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The Number One Mistake You’re Making When You Buy Olive Oil That’s Sacrificing Its Disease-Fighting Benefits
“Olive oil does not get better with age,” says Profaci. (It’s not wine.) “Olive oils are bottled with a stated shelf life, which should be no more than two years from bottling. Once you open the bottle and let air in, the clock ticks much faster.
Can You Trust Your Olive Oil?
The bottle of “extra virgin” olive oil on your kitchen shelf? It’s probably not extra virgin, defined as cold-pressed and otherwise unrefined. And it might not even be 100 percent olive oil.
Beyond Olive: 5 Cooking Oils You Should Be Using
Olive oil, we still love you. But with so many other options out there for frying and drizzling—from avocado to pistachio—it’s worth playing the field a little. Here are five delicious and versatile cooking oils to try.
For A Healthy Heart, Add A Little Olive Oil
Now, a new study looks at whether olive oil or nuts do more for cholesterol in people at high risk of heart disease, since both have been shown to have significant heart benefits in the past, and both contain healthy fats. The short answer is that olive oil seems to do more for cholesterol, but nuts are not without their own benefit.
Healthy Olive Oil? Bitter is Better!
As long as it is not rancid, all olive oil is good for you. It has monounsaturated fat, which is the “good” fat and can replace animal fats for health and longevity. The latest scientific research in olive oil focuses on the health promoting aspects and uses of phenolic compounds, in particular oleocanthal.
How Climate Change Is Playing Havoc With Olive Oil (and Farmers)
Olive trees are hardy survivors. In the Bible, a dove brings an olive leaf to Noah on the ark, a sign that the world is not entirely destroyed. Olive oil is central to food and folklore across the Mediterranean. And its health benefits have been so extolled that global demand for extra virgin olive oil has surged. Now, a changing climate is turning olive oil into an increasingly risky business — at least in the Mediterranean, the land of its birth.
How to Choose a Good Olive Oil and Make Everything You Cook Taste Better
Olive oil can be one of the most fraudulent foodstuffs out there. In a report last year, Forbes found that nearly 80 percent of Italian olive oil was fake. These oils were either an adulterated product posing as extra virgin, mixed with other oils, not produced in Italy, and even vegetable oil disguised with colouring.
Is It Better to Cook With Coconut Oil or Olive Oil?
In terms of health impacts, it is better to cook with olive oil.
Is Olive Oil Really That Special?
Choose olive oil if you like it, not because you think it’s a health food. Canola, avocado, peanut, high-oleic safflower, and high-oleic sunflower oil are also rich in monounsaturated fat.
Olive Oil
Olive oil has been long distinguished for its excellent qualities, and it has been used from time immemorial, both as an article of diet and of usefulness as applied to many necessary purposes, by the inhabitants of various countries.
Scientists May Have Figured Out Why Olive Oil Is So Healthy
It makes “good” cholesterol perform its job more efficiently.
Seriously, Which Cooking Oil Should We Be Using?
Olive oil, especially extra virgin types, has a lower smoke point than many vegetable oils—that means it breaks down at the high temperatures used for broiling, frying, or grilling, creating potentially harmful compounds (not to mention a funky flavor), Gellman says. But it's great for sautéing over medium heat, tossing in salad dressing, and drizzling over a finished dish.
The Best Olive Oils Made in the U.S.
Producers across the U.S. are pressing olive oils that are truly world-class. Here are five of the best, sourced everywhere from Georgia to California.
The Heartbreak of Global Olive Oil Fraud—and What to Do About It
One potential upside in this global, widespread fraud endemic is that the industry is beginning to boom in the United States, where artisanal companies, particularly in California, are starting to produce very good oil. Meanwhile, the University of California, Davis recently opened an Olive Center, where they are pushing the olive oil agenda, testing supermarket oils (they conducted a test with the Australian Oils Research Laboratory and found that 6 percent of oils were not extra virgin at all), and establishing new standards.
The Most (and Least) Fake Extra Virgin Olive Oil Brands
Frauds! An estimated 69% of all store-bought extra virgin olive oils in the US are probably fake, according to tests by the University of California. UC Davis tested samples from the top-selling extra virgin olive oil brands to find the ones that are not worth buying and those that are.
Yes, Cooking With Olive Oil Is Perfectly Safe
Don’t believe what you’ve read about smoke points.
7 Myths (and Truths) About Olive Oil
Why olive oil makes better muffins and a few other little-known facts about the good fat that’s even better than you think. Here are three recipes for cooking with olive oil, plus tips for buying and cooking with this versatile, healthy fat
Olive Business
Olives and olive oil can be used in many different ways, and many people are interested in the health benefits of including olive oil as a part of a balanced diet.
Olive Oil Source
We are pleased to provide information about various events, competitions, shows, as well as expert advice, an on-line newsletter, and various archived articles about olive oil. Lots to talk about!
Olive Oil Times
For thousands of years liquid gold has been produced, traded, and cherished, but much of the world is only now becoming acquainted with olive oil as an integral part of a healthier way of life.
Olives101.com
Olives and Olive Oil News From All Around the World.
About Olive Oil
Welcome to About Olive Oil, brought to you by the North American Olive Oil Association. At the NAOOA, we celebrate the health and versatility of all types of olive oil for all consumers in North America.
California Olive Oil Council
The California Olive Oil Council (COOC) is a non-profit trade and marketing association whose purpose is to promote the production and consumption of California extra virgin olive oil. Through our Seal Certification program, we help everyone from home cooks to restaurants find guaranteed extra virgin olive oil for their kitchen.
International Olive Council
The International Olive Council is the only intergovernmental organisation in the world to bring together olive oil and table olive producing and consuming stakeholders. This places it in a unique position as a forum for authoritative discussion on issues of interest to the olive industry.
Italian Oil Industry Association
Assitol — The Italian Oil Industry Association represents and safeguards industrial firms that operate in the sector of fatty substances and derivatives within all the different national, community and international offices.
UC Davis Olive Center
We pursue research with a fresh perspective, applying modern scientific knowledge and technology to an ancient crop.
California Olive Ranch
A Difference You Can Taste... Fresh, great tasting olive oil inspires everything we do at California Olive Ranch. We believe in making great olive oil and healthy food available to everyone. We’re so passionate about the quality of our olive oil, that we grow and harvest our olives with the same care that California wine makers apply to their grapes. We press our olives within hours of picking to seal in the fresh taste.
Calolea
Calolea’s hand crafted olive oil has been certified “extra virgin” by the COOC and has an acidity level of 0.13%. The olives on the Keller’s 100 year old Mission and Manzanillo trees are hand picked, custom milled and cold pressed within 24 hours to create the highest quality oil possible.
Davero
We’re proud to say we’re certified organic as well as Biodynamic® – a method and philosophy of farming that actually improves the land every year. The core tenet of Biodynamic farming is to treat the farm as a closed system, paying attention to the soil, the animals, the fields, the forests, and the farmers. Only then can you produce truly healthy crops.
O Olive Oil & Vinegar
Premium olive oils and vinegars crafted in the heart of California wine country.
Olio Bello
Olio Bello Certified Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil is grown and pressed on our 320 acre property situated in the beautiful Margaret River region of South Western Australia. We are surrounded by dramatic natural beauty and share our land with numerous forms of wildlife that journey through the hills and valleys of our property, coming and going throughout the seasons.
Olio2go
For Italian extra virgin olive oil, Olio2go is the leading source on the Internet. Our company offers a wide selection of high quality, guaranteed 100% extra virgin olive oil from producers you can trust for the best available.
Spectrum
At Spectrum, we work with talented, dedicated people to create the best products possible, and using processes that are gentle to both the planet and our bodies. Our passionate commitment leads us to craft great-tasting oils to help people live healthier lives.
The Olive Press
The Olive Press is dedicated to anything and everything having to do with olives and olive oil. Visiting one of the tasting rooms in Sonoma and Napa is an experience. The best and freshest award winning California extra virgin olive oils are offered for tasting, along with a variety of vinegars for unusual, creative and sometimes explosive pairings.
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