Pressing concern for olive growers
Santa Barbara growers face lean harvest
By Franck Nelson,
Santa Barbara News Press
Olive growers in Santa Barbara County are bracing for what is expected to be their leanest harvest in 25 years.
The culprit is the weather, but not the recent hot spell; the high temperatures that troubled many crops were easily handled by most olive varieties. Instead, the damage came from wet and windy weather earlier this year.
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Do olives offer same benefits as their oil?
DEAR DR. BLONZ: We all know how healthy extra-virgin olive oil is for us.
Do we get the same health benefit from eating olives?
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Spanish Company Introduces New Way to Use Olive Oil
The good life is all about mind, body and spirit. Feeling good about yourself and being healthy are the essentials for a quality lifestyle. For thousands of years olive oil has symbolized the good life and has been seen as a natural product that stands for abundance, purity and health. Today, centuries after the juice of olives was discovered and used to enhance foods and delight palates, it is undergoing a significant transformation. A Spanish company is revolutionizing the way to use olive oil by introducing Oro de Olivo, a healthy and delicious choice for enjoying 100% extra virgin olive oil the smart way – in a spray.
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Man could live on bread and olive oil
By Nicholas Boer,
BRUSCHETTA IS TOAST, literally. But it’s also trendy — especially in summer, when chefs top it with tomatoes. To earn the name, however, all you need is good olive oil and coarse salt.
Peter Chastain, chef of Prima in Walnut Creek, calls bruschetta “the quintessential food” of Tuscany and Umbria, surmising its popularity is due both as a way to use up leftover bread and as an easy way to enjoy extraordinary olive oil.
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Olive Oil: A Couple of Tablespoons a Day Will Keep (Many) Doctors Away
By Kyle Phillips,
Olive oil was Athena’s gift to the Ancients, and she gave much better than we knew, as I discovered at a conference organized by Chianti Classico’s olive oil producers: It turns out that extra virgin oil, that obtained by cold-pressing the olives and separating the oil from the paste via press or centrifuge, is quite healthy.
First, olive oil is a good source of omega-3 fatty acid, the acid one also finds in caught (as opposed to raised) oily fish such as salmon, which is important in preventing cardiovascular disease. Olive oil is also a good source of omega-6 fatty acid, which the body transforms into prostoglandins, substances that can block inflammation, and help regulate heart, liver and kidney function. Recent research has shown that for one to derive the maximum benefit from Omega 3 and Omega 6 fatty acids, one has to ingest the proper ratio of the two acids, which is one part Omega 3 to ten parts Omega 6 — what one finds in olive oil. By comparison, many other elements in the Western diet offer ratios between twenty and fifty to one.
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