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How can olive oil waste product reduce industry use of artificial additives?

By Will Chu, 03-Aug-2016 Scientists have developed a cheaper way to make high quality, natural emulsifiers and other valuable additives using the waste product from olive oil production. (Continue Reading)

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Olive Oil Compound Kills Cancer Cells

Olive Oil Compounds Kill Cancer Cells- Researchers from Rutgers University have found that an ingredient in olive oil will kill cancer cells in under an hour. The researchers tested a compound called oleocanthal, a central component of extra virgin olive oil, and found that it caused the premature death of cancer cells in the laboratory by puncturing cancer cell vesicles,

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Italy’s liquid gold: Olive oil producers compete for annual awards

By GREG PATENT – for the Ravalli Republic I’m not usually a superstitious person, but the Soothsayer’s words from Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” echoed in my brain as I boarded the plane to Italy, “Beware the Ides of March.” It was March 15 (and the day Caesar met his fate), and I was on my way to Rome. My plane landed

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Italy Growers Wary of Olive Oil Fraud as New Law Is Weighed

BLERA, Italy — For some of the 300 olive growers who toil here in the rolling hills of the Lazio region, making olive oil is a year-round labor of love. The olives are hand-harvested early in the fall, when they are still green, and are whisked to a cooperative-run mill so they can be cold-pressed within 12 hours. Nothing is

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Vitamin Supplements: The Best Multivitamins What do the best multivitamins contain?

David Schardt • January 25, 2016 Have you bought multivitamins lately? Have you heard they can prevent a cold? (They don’t.) Or perhaps that multivitamins are useless? (They’re not.) Or that they could even lead to a shorter life? (They don’t.) There’s certainly a ton of debate. It can be pretty confusing, to say the least. There are multivitamins for

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Oil in the Family

Over the years, in our store and at our tasting presentations, customers often ask about cooking oils other than Olive Oil. Often it leads to a discussion of many of the other oils from Canola to Coconut. As you can from the following chart, all the oils listed have a little of every fat, some that is good for you such as the

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