Olive Oil Yields Soar with nuclear magnetic resonance
By Cynthia Graber,
By correlating fruit color with oil content measured via nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), growers can find the optimal time to harvest their olives.
Olive oil producers generally guess the best time to harvest their olives by checking the fruit’s color. The olive has to hit that perfect spot where they’ve just turned ripe—purple to black—but aren’t yet falling to the ground.
Now, scientists at Israel’s Ben-Gurion University are helping them out with nuclear magnetic resonance, also known as NMR. NMR is usually used medically to create images or measure a specimen’s levels of proteins and fat. But this is the first time it’s being used industrially.
Researchers first take digital photos of olives at different levels of ripeness, then they put the olives in the NMR machine. Within a few seconds it determines the olives’ oil content. Combing the photos with the oil information allows scientists to create a database correlating peak oil with perfect color.
A farmer in the field could take pictures of his crop. A special camera would average the olives’s color and tell him the optimal time to harvest. In a test, a local farmer learned that if he had harvested his crop 10 days earlier, he could have gotten 25 percent more olive oil.
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Mario Camacho Foods: Schnucks issues olive recall
Olive lovers, there’s a recall you need to know about.
Mario Camacho Foods has announced a voluntary recall of Schnucks brand Spanish olives in the 5.75 ounce jars.
Jars with the best by code of 02/06/11 and UPC code of 04131819003 may contain glass. There have been no reports of injury.
Customers with questions should contact Mario Camacho Foods at 1-800-293-9783 or the Schnucks Consumer Affairs Department at 314-994-4000 or 1-800-264-4000
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Olive oil: a liquid market
Paul Levy notes that Italian olive oil output is declining and prices seem to be going up. Are recent EU regulations actually helping?
A few weeks ago I received an alarming email from Armando Manni who makes what is certainly the most expensive olive oil in the world, and the one that a great many people think is also the best. He announced that his 2007 Organic Farming extra virgin olive oil Toscano IGP (Protected Geographical Indication) was ready to ship from Tuscany. But, in his own words:
“Unfortunately global warming in Italy has cut the olive oil production by almost 50%. It has been a disaster. Our production of the new harvest 2007 is only 1,500 litres instead of 2,600 litres. So, we’ll be sold out earlier this year”.
Try though I might to establish independently whether the Tuscan shortfall is universal or confined to Manni’s oil, or whether there’s any consensus about global warming being the cause, I’ve failed completely. But I’ve turned up a few interesting trifles worth considering.
(Be warned, almost nothing that follows is relevant to Manni’s own oil, whose price of €220 (£190) a litre reflects the cost of amortising his classy olive groves, pressing and bottling the oil using processes more commonly used for fine wine, and delivering it by ecologically-incorrect courier in 100ml anti-UV glass bottles.)
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SOS Cuetara declines comment on interest in Unilever’s olive oil Bertolli
SOS Cuetara SA. declined to comment on its possible interest in acquiring international food manufacturer Unilever Plc.’s Italian olive oil brand Bertolli, as reported in Italy’s daily Il Sole 24 Ore.
The newspaper also flagged Nutrinvest of Portugal as a possible buyer.
SOS bought the Friol Italia oil brand from Unilever for 33.25 million euros at the end of 2006.
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Unilever mulls €600m sale of Bertolli olive oil
By Robin Pagnamenta,
Unilever, the maker of Marmite and Magnum ice cream, confirmed today that it was considering the sale of its Bertolli olive oil business as it reported a 7.2 per cent rise in first quarter sales.
The Anglo-Dutch company, the world’s third largest maker of consumer goods, said it was considering a range of options for the Bertolli range of oils, including a sale, which it is thought could raise as much as €600 million.
A spokesman said Unilever would want to retain brand rights as it also sells a range of other Bertolli products, including pasta sauces.
If sold, Bertolli, the world’s leading olive oil brand with products currently sold in over 50 countries, would be the latest in a string of disposals by Unilever, which is seeking to simplify its range of products as part of a wider restructuring drive.
Earlier, Unilever appeared to raise hopes that a long-standing turnaround plan at the company was starting to reap rewards as it reported turnover rose 6 per cent at €9.57 billion.
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