Oil
Extra virgin olive oil has many useful properties for our health
organism, is obtained from the pressing of the olives which are the fruit of the plant
of the olive tree (or olive tree) whose scientific name is Olea europeae.
Olive oil, unlike all other oils that are obtained from seeds, is the only one that
it is obtained from the fruit of the plant. Extra virgin olive oil is obtained by pressing
mechanics of olives excluding any industrial treatment.
To deserve the denomination of extra virgin olive oil, as well as being extracted
in an exclusively mechanical way, the oil must not be subjected to any kind of
heating, its degree of acidity must not exceed 0.8% and its
score from an organoleptic point of view must not be less than 6.5. All the
oils that do not meet these characteristics are marketed with others
denominations.
