Category: OLIVE CULTURE

Greek olive oil deservedly gain its reputation as the most natural oil with rich flavour taste and aroma, from its contribution as the fundamental base of the Mediterranean diet. The eternal olive trees are deeply rooted in Greek land and their oil is considered among the best in the world. Undoubtedly, these sacred trees found […]

2.500 years ago, Hippocrates, the founder of rational medicine, had called olive oil as the “great medication”. He used it mainly to treat the pain in the muscles, to prevent a poisoning, to heal wounds and cure stomach disorders. Moreover, in the 59 projects of the Hippocratic Collection, have been identified over sixty pharmaceutical uses […]

The term “Mediterranean diet” was discovered in 1991 by the American physiologist Ancel Keys, who wanted to describe the eating habits of the Mediterranean countries. In his research, he observed that the inhabitants of the Mediterranean Sea live longer and are less likely to develop heart disease. Two years later, scientists from Harvard Medical School, […]