by Joyce Schneider,
A study from the Harokopio University of Athens, Greece, has determined that a diet high in olive oil and low in red meat has a significant impact on women’s bone density.
Results of this study suggest that this eating pattern could have bone-preserving properties throughout adult life.
Diet is one of the modifiable [...]
Quatre opérateurs du secteur de l’huile d’olive en Tunisie ont participé au salon international de l’agroalimentaire “PRODEXPO-MOSCOU” qui s’est tenu du 9 au 13 février 2009.
Selon le Centre technique de l’emballage et du conditionnement “PACKTEC”, cette participation s’inscrit «dans le cadre d’un programme ambitieux qui vise l’amélioration de la visibilité de l’huile d’olive tunisienne à [...]
By Marcia Wood,
Olives basking in sunny California groves might find that their new best friend is a small brown wasp. Known to scientists as Psyttalia cf. concolor, the little wasp can help foil the olive fruit fly, a powerful natural enemy of olives.
Agricultural Research Service (ARS) entomologist Victoria Y. Yokoyama and colleagues have imported and [...]
Sally James, the Australian food writer transplanted to Yountville, tells the Register that Yellingbo Gold Extra Virgin Olive Oil is donating 100 percent of its profits through the end of February to the Red Cross Bushfire Appeal, which will help families and communities rebuild after the devastating fires in Australia.
Three Bridges Farm in Yarra Valley, [...]
A Tunisian biochemistry researcher whose laboratory specializes in the characteristics of different varieties of Tunisian olive oil, has managed to register two patents respectively on the anti-oxidant qualities of one variety of olive oil that grows in the country’s north western regions and on sterility therapy in certain animal species.
Dr Mokhtar Zarrouk who heads a [...]
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