An extremely versatile extra virgin olive oil for your everyday cooking and health.  Whether we are cooking, sautéing, marinating, making a salad dressing or baking, this is the ideal go-to olive oil.  Exhibits an amazingly balanced green grassy taste and aroma of fresh cut grass with banana notes, this olive oil is loaded with healthy antioxidants.

 Polyphenol 714

Crush Date: 23/24  Acidity:  .24  Peroxide 3.77   DeltaK  -.0005

***Olive Oil HEALTH CLAIM

(Commission Regulation (EU) 432/2012) There is a EFSA approved health claim that only olive oils  with 250 mg/kg of polyphenols or more can claim:

·        Olive oil polyphenols contribute to the protection of blood lipids from oxidative stress.  In order to bear the claim information shall be given to the consumer that the beneficial effect is obtained with a daily intake of 20 g of olive oil.

(Commission Regulation (EU) 432/2012) Olive oil comprises mainly of the monounsaturated fatty acid oleic acid (C18:1). There is also a EFSA approved health claim on the unsaturated fatty acids:

·        Replacing saturated fats in the diet with unsaturated fats contributes to the maintenance of normal blood cholesterol levels. The claim may be used only for food which is high in unsaturated fatty acids, as referred to in the claim HIGH UNSATURATED FAT as listed in the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006.