The most studied diet in the world is also the least gimmicky — because it isn't really a diet at all. Here…
New Zealand makes tiny quantities of some of the freshest extra virgin on earth — and its wine regions, like Marlborough, quietly…
Faire de l'huile d'olive produit un déchet sombre, acide et polluant qui accable la Méditerranée depuis des siècles. Une amende judiciaire pour…
The olive lace bug is a small native Australian insect that can strip a grove of its crop — a reminder that…
A high-tech grove in Morocco marks a quiet revolution: the super-high-density hedgerow, the machine-picked orchard that reshaped who grows olives and which…
The olive was sold to India's struggling farmers as a second green revolution. Did the promise hold? An honest look at the…
A chocolate shaped like an olive is a gimmick — but it points at something real: olives and chocolate, and olive oil…
Harvest is the most expensive fortnight in an olive grove and the one that decides how the oil tastes. Here is how…
Mineral oil in edible fats is not a scandal that ended in 2008 — it is a permanent, low-level hazard in every…
A fat is a fat when you are counting calories. It stops being true the moment you look at what the fat…
L'huile d'olive traîne plus de mythes que n'importe quel autre corps gras. Voici ce qui est vrai : ce que veulent dire…
Olive oil turns up in every longevity headline going. The honest version is more interesting than the hype — and it turns…
Sonoma and Napa make some of America's best extra virgin olive oil — and some of its most over-priced. A plain guide…
Les salons agroalimentaires méditerranéens sont le lieu où se fait réellement le commerce de l'olive. Ce qui se passe sur un stand…
Olive trade fairs are not shopping trips. They are three events wearing one badge — a machinery show, a bulk market and…
When a big olive company looks at planting abroad, it is not chasing sunshine. It is chasing water it can afford —…
Northern California keeps trying to become the Napa of olive oil. The branding is easy; the agronomy, the freshness advantage and the…
Points de fumée, friture, quand une belle huile est gaspillée et quand elle vaut son prix — un guide simple pour utiliser…
Australia's small olive growers do not survive by selling oil cheaply. They survive by selling everything else too — and by knowing…
La fraude sur l'huile d'olive est ancienne, rentable et assez banale : de l'huile bon marché déguisée en huile chère. Comment fonctionne chaque…
Whole groves stripped overnight, not an olive left on the ground. Grove theft sounds like a curiosity until you look at the…
Ten kinds of olive in the pantry is not a collection, it is a filing problem. Here is how to build one…
Olive oil went from a British chemist's shelf to a British kitchen staple in about two generations. How that happened — and…
Picking day is the single biggest decision in an olive year. Colour charts, maturity indices and lab instruments all try to answer…
Pourquoi les bocaux d'olives sont rappelés, ce que signifient réellement les classes de rappel, et la seule règle qui compte si un…
Olive oil prices swing violently and the explanations offered are usually too neat. Here is what actually moves the price, why one…
The famous Italian names on the olive oil shelf are mostly owned elsewhere, and have been for years. Here is what a…
The best-known name in olive oil has changed hands for hundreds of millions of euros — and not one olive tree was…
The name on the bottle is rarely the company that filled it. A look at the invisible middle of the olive oil…
You can love olives and still dread the tree. In late spring the olive releases one of the Mediterranean's great hay-fever pollens…
Olive oil is a wonderful food and a mediocre skincare ingredient. What the evidence actually shows about oil on skin, acne and…
The Mediterranean diet keeps beating low-fat plans in heart studies. What the trials actually compared, what the olive oil contributes, and why…
Hydroxytyrosol is the most interesting molecule in olive oil and the most over-claimed. What the laboratory work actually shows, what European regulators…
Olives reached South America on Spanish ships almost five hundred years ago, and Peru turned them into something of its own: the…
Olive harvests swing violently from one year to the next, and it is not bad luck. Alternate bearing, winter chill and pruning…
Texas grows olives, presses good oil, and keeps losing entire harvests to weather. The state is a useful lesson in what it…
L'huile d'olive à tartiner n'est pas de l'huile d'olive en pot. Ce qu'il y a vraiment dedans, pourquoi l'huile utilisée est raffinée,…
California went from mission trees and canned black olives to a modern oil industry in about thirty years. How wineries started it,…
An olive tree survives neglect. A crop does not. A season-by-season guide to what actually has to be done in a grove,…
A government cuts the import duty on olive oil and the price on the shelf does not move for months. That gap…
How the olive reached the Cape: a Dutch commander's diary note in 1661, an indigenous wild olive that made perfect rootstock, and…
India planted olives in the Thar desert with Israeli agronomy and state money. Nearly two decades on, the trees grew, the oil…
Olive oil competitions are judged in blue glass at body temperature by trained panels — and the judging is far more rigorous…
Organic olive oil grew fast because olives are an unusually easy organic crop and certification travels well as an export passport. What…
Marinated, stuffed, spiced, smoked — flavoured olives are the fastest-growing corner of the olive aisle, and the one where the least is…
A mill big enough to process tens of thousands of gallons a day is not just a bigger version of a village…
Spain grows more olives than anywhere on earth, yet most people meet only two of its varieties. A working guide to the…
Le Maroc est l'un des grands pays de l'olivier, et il se reconstruit discrètement autour de la technologie espagnole de la haie…
Hedgerow olive orchards harvested by converted grape machines changed the economics of olive oil for ever — and narrowed the world's olive…
Hydroxytyrosol is the olive's own defence chemical, the source of the bitterness you were taught to avoid, and a genuinely effective natural…
Oil is pressed in one country, tanked to another, bottled in a third and sold under a fourth flag. That is not…
Vegetable oil, a little chlorophyll, a false label, and twenty-five thousand litres of extra virgin that never saw an olive. Here is…
Why a Californian oil tastes the way it does, what its freshness advantage is actually worth, and why the famous study that…
Organic certification governs how the tree was farmed and how the fruit was cured — and says nothing at all about whether…
An olive mill works about forty days a year and sits idle for the other three hundred. That single fact explains the…
The International Olive Council writes the rules that decide what may be called extra virgin. What it is, what its grades actually…
Pakistan already owns a wild olive forest. The whole national olive project rests on one unglamorous technique — grafting a fruiting cultivar…
One year the branches bend under fruit; the next there is almost nothing. That swing is not luck or weather — it…
A village oil mill built in 1950, abandoned in 1970 and reopened as a museum in 2008. Why that particular twenty-year working…
Import duties, freight, exchange rates and grade all sit between a Spanish tank and your shelf. Understanding the stack explains why a…
Olive trees will grow happily in Florida. Getting them to fruit is another matter entirely — and the reason is a number…
Bulk olive shipments turn up in smuggling cases with grim regularity. The reason is structural, and it tells you a great deal…
India once cut olive oil import duty from around 45 per cent to 7.5 per cent overnight. What happened next is the…
Good olive oil is worth paying for — but most of what gets written about why is wrong. Here is what is…
Olive oil and the heart: what the evidence actually supports, what regulators have been willing to authorise, and why claims about recovery…
Olive oil was once suspect simply for being fat. What changed was not the oil but our understanding of it — and…
Liguria makes some of Italy's most expensive olive oil from some of its least convenient land — hand-picked Taggiasca off stone terraces.…
Olive leaf has been a Mediterranean folk remedy for centuries and a supplement-shelf staple for thirty years. A history of the claims,…
A desert state, an Israeli partner and 50,000 saplings. Rajasthan's olive trial is the most instructive frontier planting of the last twenty…
Texas growers discovered something counter-intuitive: their winters were not too cold for olives, they were too warm. Then a single freeze wiped…
Jordan is a small olive producer that almost nobody outside the region has tasted — because nearly all of its oil is…
Olive cravings are common enough to be a cliché, especially in pregnancy. Salt is the obvious answer and it is only half…
By Laura Kurtzman, After the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, the University of California, Davis established a research department that led to…
Un petit essai humain a montré qu'une préparation à l'oleuropéine apaisait les signes visibles d'un coup de soleil après exposition aux UVB.…
The olive tree survives heat and drought famously well. Its crop does not. A stage-by-stage account of what heatwaves actually do to…
Oregon is too wet, too cool and too prone to hard freezes for olives. A small band of Willamette Valley growers has…
A stainless tank, a spigot, and a shop that lets you taste before you buy. The olive oil tap room solves the…
An olive straight from the tree is inedible. Everything interesting about the fruit follows from that single fact — including the reason…
A California campus turned its nuisance olive trees into an oil programme, then published research that embarrassed half the imported oil on…
Australia's real olive oil achievement was not a medal. It was writing a national standard with both chemistry and a tasting panel…
What a modern olive-growing course actually teaches: planting density, irrigation, fruit fly, harvest timing and milling. The syllabus is short, the density…
Texas grew from four orchards to America's second olive state in under thirty years, then lost its harvest to a single February.…
Earthquake sensitive Orey forecasts during turbulent times ahead people will forego fancy processed foods and go back to Mother Nature’s finest staple–olive…
Olive oil will shave you, polish your furniture, moisturise your skin and silence your hinges — according to every household-tips list ever…
Extra virgin is a legal grade with numbers attached, not a compliment. Here are the actual tests a bottle must pass, the…
Olive trees survive British winters more easily than people assume. Producing a crop is another matter entirely — and the obstacle is…
Olive oil fraud is rarely a bottle of sunflower oil with a fake label. It is subtler, more profitable and much harder…
Governments announce olive projects far outside the Mediterranean every few years. What it actually takes to start an olive industry from nothing,…
Olive leaf is the grove's biggest by-product and the supplement industry's favourite raw material. What is actually in it, what the human…
A green olive and a black olive can come off the same branch of the same tree. Colour is a clock, not…
Health marketing built the modern olive oil category. Here is what a producer is legally allowed to claim, what the halo does…
European rules force extra virgin and virgin olive oil to declare an origin — but the permitted wordings range from precise to…
The ancient Mediterranean treated olive oil as half food and half medicine. Modern science took eight thousand years to agree — and…
La France produit très peu d'huile d'olive et en consomme beaucoup. Guide des huit AOP françaises, des variétés qui les portent, du…
Dans le Rif, l'huile d'olive devient un revenu alternatif sur des terres qui en offrent peu. Les coopératives qui y parviennent ont…
Par Moufida Barhoumi, Conforme aux normes établies par le Conseil Oléicole International dont la Tunisie est membre permanent et l’un des pays…
Bruxelles a un jour reproché à l'Italie d'enfreindre le droit en obligeant ses embouteilleurs à dire d'où venaient leurs olives. Quelques années…
Olive theft in Andalusia is organised, seasonal and driven by price. How the gangs work, why stolen fruit is so easy to…
De temps à autre, une étude semble renverser la réputation de l'huile d'olive et les titres suivent. Comprendre pourquoi la plupart ne…
Un polyphénol de l'olive a protégé des cellules rétiniennes contre une toxine liée au tabac, dans une boîte de culture. C'est un…
The olive fruit fly eats only olives, ruins table fruit outright and quietly wrecks oil chemistry. Its biology, what its larvae do…
Türkiye grows a great deal of very good olive oil and sells too much of it in barrels. The same three-way argument…
Pakistan has millions of wild olive trees already growing on its hillsides. The interesting question was never whether olives would grow there…
Standardised olive polyphenol extracts are now an ingredient industry of their own. What the compounds are, where they come from, and why…
Olive oil is folk medicine's favourite moisturiser. The research is less flattering than the folklore — and for some skin, plain olive…
Olive oil is expensive in India for reasons that have almost nothing to do with olives — and the bottle most Indian…
Olive harvest as therapy: why Spanish and Mediterranean recovery communities put people in the trees each winter, and what the work actually…
La Californie a bâti toute une culture de l’olive sur le fruit noir en conserve et les recettes de famille — voici…
Maslinic acid, the waxy triterpene on an olive's skin, has spent two decades generating exciting laboratory headlines. Here is what it actually…
L’hydroxytyrosol, le polyphénol emblématique de l’olive, revient sans cesse dans les travaux de laboratoire sur la santé oculaire. Voici ce qu’il est…
Les fêtes de l'olive de Kabylie tiennent du marché, des retrouvailles et de la dispute sur le prix. Regard sur la vallée…
Pourquoi un verger d'oliviers australien peut passer de presque rien à une récolte pléthorique en une seule saison — alternance, sécheresse, et…
L'Algérie exporte presque toute son huile en vrac et sans nom. Guide de ce qu'un label, une appellation et une certification apportent…
Garlic and herbs sitting in olive oil are the classic home route to botulism. Here is the actual mechanism, and how to…
Turkish olive and olive oil exporters examine factories in the Spanish cities of Madrid, Seville and Cordoba that meet 51 percent of…
Chef-branded and flavoured olive oils sell a name and a story. Some are excellent; many are ordinary oil wearing a famous label.…
Single-village olive shops turn up in every diaspora city, usually run by someone selling their own family's crop. Here is why that…
La production algérienne d'huile d'olive varie violemment d'une année à l'autre. Voici le mécanisme des chutes — alternance, coteaux non irrigués, feu,…
L'Algérie a les olives, les huileries et des siècles de savoir-faire — mais exporter de l'huile d'olive suppose des papiers. Guide clair…
Turkey has one of the world's largest olive tree populations and one of its smallest export brands. Why the sector keeps looking…
Gold medals on olive oil bottles come from tasting panels with real rules — and real blind spots. Here is how the…
The olive in the martini is the most famous olive in the world and the worst-treated. How it got into the glass,…
Le laboratoire accrédité est le maillon le moins glamour et le plus important du commerce de l’huile d’olive. Ce que les analyses…
La Tunisie est l'un des grands producteurs mondiaux d'huile d'olive et l'une des plus petites marques. La cause tient en un mot :…
Organic olive oil awards, and what a medal at a trade fair actually tells you — how the judging works, what organic…
Used cooking oil is one of the most damaging things a household can pour down the sink. What actually happens to it,…
L’étiquetage d’origine des huiles d’olive paraît simple ; il ne l’est pas. Voici ce que chaque formule signifie légalement — et lesquelles ne…
Polyphenols are the reason extra virgin olive oil is talked about as a health food. What they are, what raises and destroys…
Vitamin-fortified olive oil appears on shelves every few years. What fortification actually does, what a good extra virgin already contains, and why…
How does a small Australian grove win export contracts against Mediterranean giants? Freshness, a strict national standard, counter-seasonal timing — and showing…
Hoping to do for olives and olive oil what it has done for grapes and wine, the University of California, Davis, today…
Par L. Hammachi, Dans la région nord de la wilaya de Sétif, l’oléiculture, qui est classée au quatrième rang au niveau national,…
Why the jar has no nutrition claims and plenty of sodium, whether black olives are just ripe green ones, and how table…
La Tunisie est l'un des grands producteurs mondiaux d'huile d'olive et l'une des marques les moins reconnues. Pourquoi embouteiller chez soi change…
La fraude à l’huile d’olive, ce n’est presque jamais du poison : c’est de la paperasse, de l’assemblage et des étiquettes floues. Voici…
Lebanon's village olive presses are the hinge of the whole crop. Understanding how a small mill actually earns its living explains why…
France grows a rounding error of the world's olives and gives them an outsized reputation. A field guide to the varieties of…
Les fonds de promotion des exportations paient les salons, les études de marché et le graphisme des étiquettes. Voici ce que cette…