Europol’s intellectual property crime unit seized 150,000 liters of adulterated olive oil heading for German restaurants and arrested 20 people in a joint operation with the Italian NAS Carabinieri and the Tribunal of Darmstadt in Germany. The accused allegedly modified low-quality sunflower oil with chlorophyll, beta-carotene and soya, which was then passed off as extra virgin olive oil to be…
EVOO = extra virgin olive oil and it is amazing! What is Extra Virgin Olive Oil? Extra virgin olive oil is made simply by crushing olives and extracting the juice. It is the only cooking oil that is made without the use of chemicals and industrial refining. It’s simply the juice of fresh, healthy olives which contains, more than any…
Be choosy about where your purchase your olive oil – some are not what they claim to be on the bottle label. Food experts are predicting 2019 to be a bad year for fraudulent olive oils flooding the market. Bad weather and the spread of a bacteria that kills olive trees in Europe has resulted in years of bad harvests…
We are honoured to be mentioned in and article about Canadian small towns. Speaking of food, olive oil is having a moment. With a myriad of flavours and growing regions, don’t be surprised when oil snobs start taking over menus—which is fine with us! For the tastiest, make your way to St. Croix Olive, where you can sample a ton…
The highest art of vinegar production in Italy is called “Aceto Balsamico Tradizionale” -, so you would think that all Balsamic vinegars would be of the highest quality, unfortunately this is not the case. You can pay anywhere from $3 per pint to $50 per ounce, so it becomes an art to choose a fine quality Balsamic vinegar at a…
Olive trees are native to the Mediterranean where they have grown and bore fruit for thousands of years Olive oil is technically a fruit juice and the olives are pressed much like an orange or lemon. There are hundreds of olive varieties, 250 of those varieties are grown in Spain alone. In fact Spain is the world’s largest producer of…
St. Croix Olive keeps all its extra virgin olive oils and its aged Balsamic vinegars in air tight, stainless Fusti to ensure optimum freshness. When you have made your selections, they are then decanted into green tinted UV resistant glass bottles to preserve the taste and quality of the product. To maintain this freshness, store your tightly sealed bottles in…
