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How can you recognize a good Extra Virgin Olive Oil?
Fulvio De Lorenzis
Extra virgin olive oil is the main condiment of the Mediterranean diet. A must in Italian cuisine, but how do you recognize a good Extra Virgin Olive Oil? Without resorting to chemical laboratory analysis, we can rely on our taste-olfactory senses. It is important to know that extra virgin olive oils are not all the same: in fact, there are more than 400 olive cultivars, each with different tastes and flavors, which vary depending on the territory they belong to. Although the quality of the oil does not depend on its color, it is still necessary to know that a...
Borderland
Fulvio De Lorenzis
Salento is the eastern most region of Italy, it is a frontier land.
It is the oldest of the Apulian lands. Every clod of his land exudes ancestral traces of it’s civilization...
Frantoio Cazzetta promotes environmental sustainability
Francesca De Lorenzis
Unlike the more common linear economy models (raw material, production, distribution, consumption, waste) which put environmental resources ...
EVO oil against cardiovascular diseases
Fulvio De Lorenzis
EVO oil carries out a hypocholesterolemic action through three mechanisms ...
Sensory notes of an excellent EVO
Francesca De Lorenzis
For this reason, its nutritional and health components are preserved for ...