L'olive phare de l'Albanie — une variété du sud, robuste et mixte, donnant une huile corsée et poivrée que peu de gens…
Albania's leading olive — a tough, dual-purpose southern variety making a robust, peppery oil few outside the Balkans have ever tasted.
Maltese olive oil is back: nine registered mills now press about 28 tons a year, and the native bidni olive is being…
Taiwan olive oil scandal: Chang Chi's chairman gets 16 years for 'olive oil' blended with cheap oils and colored green. How it…
Australian olive oil growers say 9 in 10 imported oils fail the local standard. Importers call the new ads misleading and have…
French organic olive oil is Afidol's answer to Spanish oil made for €2 a liter, yet only 12% of French olive farms…
Xylella fastidiosa has never been eradicated outdoors, EFSA warns in urgent advice on Puglia's outbreak. Controls must target plants and insects.
Refillable olive oil cruets will be banned in Spanish bars and restaurants from January 1, 2014. What the royal decree requires, and…
Greek olive oil harvest 2013: heat and hot winds cut output by half in key regions, to about 230,000 tons. What it…
Domenica Fiore olive oil: Frank Giustra's Umbrian estate picks early, presses fast and seals oil in steel, and he expects to lose…
Xylella fastidiosa, a quarantine bacterium new to the EU, turns up in dying olive trees in Puglia's Salento. What is known, what…
Olive oil fraud tops a European Parliament draft list of foods most at risk, ahead of fish and organic food. What the…
IOC Brazil campaign: 'It goes with everything that's good' aims to sell Brazilians more olive oil and table olives. The plan, the…
Olive oil prices keep falling in Spain despite low stocks. Catalonia's competition authority will report on how they are set. What growers…
Dcoop is the new name of Hojiblanca, Spain's giant olive cooperative, after its merger with Granada's Tierras Altas. What changes, and what…
The Olive Oil Commission of California is law: Governor Brown signed SB 250. Growers must vote it in before it can set…
The USITC olive oil report finds extra virgin standards broad and mostly unenforced, with imports at 97% of U.S. use. What it…
Mediterranean diet and dementia: an Exeter review of 12 studies found better cognition in 9. What it shows, what it doesn't, and…
DECO olive oil test: Portugal's consumer group says 5 of 25 extra virgin brands failed, one not even olive oil. What the…
Oxitec wants a GM olive fly trial in a netted grove in Tarragona, which critics call an EU first. What it proposes…
A PREDIMED analysis finds the Mediterranean diet erased a genetic stroke risk carried by one in seven people. What the study shows…
Spain's olive oil agency proposed 17 fines and found 30 plants with no traceability. It also says EU storage aid did nothing…
India's biggest olive oil seller says pomace oil is rich in micro nutrients. Chemists doubt the olive pomace oil claim. The numbers…
The olive tree's leaves have been folk medicine for centuries. Here's what olive leaf extract actually is, what the evidence does and…
Olive oil has been a beauty staple since antiquity, and it earns most of its reputation — with two honest caveats the…
Pakistan is trying to turn barren, marginal land into olive country to cut its huge edible-oil import bill. Why the climate fits,…
The bird’s eye view from the century-old-plus Beach Line Citrus farm in Niland in California’s Imperial County is a commanding vision of…
For Palestinian farming communities the olive tree is livelihood, food and heritage in one — which is why the loss of a…
Illegal crops have a long habit of hiding among olive trees. The open, low-tended, widely spaced olive grove is oddly good cover…
Every so often a builder's dig near Jerusalem turns up a stone olive press. Each one is a small proof of the…
Can olive oil really 'boost your immune system'? Here's what that popular claim gets right, what it overstates, and how olive oil…
A single magnum of Australian extra virgin once sold at charity auction for five figures. It says less about what oil is…
Agrodolce — Italian for sweet and sour — turns a bowl of good brined olives into a warm, glossy antipasto with orange,…
An olive grove is a year-round commitment that pays out once, in autumn — which is why the loss of mature trees…
Behind every restaurant's house olive oil sits a vast, invisible bulk trade. Here is how bulk olive oil really works — and…
Australia grows serious, award-winning olive oil in a Mediterranean climate turned upside down — harvesting when Europe rests, and offering the northern…
California's olive oil has quietly grown up, and its producers now win serious competition medals. But what does a gold medal on…
Olive festivals have quietly multiplied across California and beyond. They are more than a day out — they are how a young…
The IOC trade standard is online with tighter limits on alkyl esters, stigmastadienes, myristic acid and waxes from October. What each test…
Spain took eight of nine prizes at the IOC Mario Solinas Quality Award 2013 in Madrid. The winners, how the judging works,…
The UK traffic light label launched this week and olive oil scores two reds. How the thresholds work and why the color…
A JAMA study ties vegetable fats and prostate cancer survival: olive oil and nuts in place of starch, fewer deaths. What it…
Fake extra virgin olive oil in Australia: the ACCC fines an importer A$20,400 over tins that were 93% canola. What the label…
Albania olive oil is an election issue: plant millions more trees, or fix the mills first. Inside a sector few buyers abroad…
The EU olive oil cruet ban is withdrawn a week after the vote. What the rule required, who backed it, why it…
The US farm bill adds olive oil import controls under Section 8e, so imports would meet domestic standards. What the olive oil…
A Rabobank report says emerging markets drove olive oil demand up about 13 percent a year, while the Mediterranean stands still. The…
Olive Japan 2013 judged 280 extra virgin olive oils in Tokyo and gave nine the Premier award. Why the competition matters in…
Turkish olive oil exports hit 45,524 tons in five months, up 446 percent, after Spain lost most of its crop. What the…
The first New York International Olive Oil Competition judged about 700 oils from 22 countries. Who won, how it worked, and what…
A Spanish study finds adding water during malaxation cut olive oil yield and phenols, while talc raised yield. What it means for…
Greek exporters want the Kalamata PDO abolished so any Greek grower can use the name. Messinia is fighting back. The tonnages behind…
EU olive oil checks: Regulation 299/2013 sets one grade check per 1,000 tons, stock registers from mill to bottler and new lab…
The FDA is holding Italian extra virgin olive oil over chlorpyrifos traces, a spray legal in EU groves. Why a tiny residue…
UC Davis tested the olive oil fridge test made famous by Dr. Oz. Real extra virgin never set solid and a cut…
Spain wants a deal to stop supermarkets using olive oil as a loss leader, like the one just agreed for milk. What…
The PREDIMED trial finds a Mediterranean diet with extra virgin olive oil or nuts cut heart attacks and strokes by about 30…
Spanish scientists add zinc to the brine of Aloreña olives and report firmer, less bitter fruit. What the zinc enriched table olives…
A DNA study of 1,797 olive trees traces olive domestication to the northern Levant and finds three ancient wild refuges. What it…
Capatriti olive oil lawsuit: importers say its 100% pure olive oil is really pomace oil. What pomace is and how to spot…
The Italian olive oil law in force February 1, 2013: front-label origin, an 18-month best-before, sealed restaurant bottles, tougher fraud penalties.
Australia wants the olive oil campesterol limit raised from 4.0 to 4.8 percent, saying genuine Arbequina and Koroneiki oils fail it. Why…
Cardiff chemists used oleic acid, olive oil's main fat, in a coating that shielded York Minster limestone from acid rain in the…
Libya wants to export olive oil to Europe under a national label, backed by 8 million trees and new Arbequina groves. What…
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa plans four million olive saplings to cut Pakistan's edible oil imports. What was announced and what stands between sapling and…