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Britons with a taste for Mediterranean-style cooking are spending record amounts on olive oil. Sales have topped £150million a year for the first time. That is double the amount sold eight years ago and significantly more than the £90million spent on vegetable oil. Growing evidence of the health benefits of a Mediterranean diet is behind […]

By Alex Renton, Oil pressed from the first green olives is a taste like no other. But fraud means that finding a good one is hard. The green of the olive oil is shocking: like Night Nurse. Or Swarfega. You wouldn’t put it in your mouth if it wasn’t so reassuringly expensive. With reverence, we […]

By Catherine Dawes, Cowan London has redesigned the packaging for a range of olive snacks called Oloves. Oloves are the first natural olive snack to be packaged in a stand-up pouch. The pouches use a silver laminate, are wider than they are tall and contain 45g of olives. “The redesign focused on giving the brand […]

Seymours of Norfolk, the fine food importers, producer and distributor based in Norwich, UK, recently added a range of Greek olives to its ever-increasing range. Richard Seymour, owner, says “we literally drove to the Mediterranean in search of the best olives we could find. There are a lot of olive groves in the med, and […]

More than half UK households now prefer to use olive oil instead of conventional cooking oils. Some 50.1% of homes are buying olive oil, up from 47% last year, according to manufacturer Filippo Berio. The firm’s Diane Anderson said: “It can be attributed to more emphasis on healthy eating and the evolution to a more […]