Types of olive oil

Choosing a good olive oil - types of olive oil

To choose and use an appropriate way of olive oil, it must know the different qualities that are marketed in line with EU standards:

Extra Virgin Olive Oil:
It is of excellent quality for consumption. Its acidity is very mild, ranging from 0.2 ° to a maximum of 1.

Virgin Olive Oil:
It is the olive juice, the liquid obtained by press, who then left to stand and filtered. It preserves intact the flavor and aroma own and has a color that runs a range between colour yellow and green shades always golden. Accepts up to 2 degrees acidity.

Olive Oil:
Before pure olive oil, refined oil is enriched with virgin oil. The oil is refined when its smell, colour, taste or acidity, does not make you able to be sold as extra virgin. Refining are reduced or soften these characteristics. The acidity is 0.4 to 0.7 º º without moving from 1.5 º.

Olive pomace oil:
It is the oil from the olive pomace, the residual pulp pressing, and its maximum acidity is 1.5 º.

It's good to narrow further that, currently, olive oil has begun to market in gelatin capsules, which have come on the market under the name "Oliomeet." It has opted for this form of marketing a new, more dynamic and innovative, aimed at reinserting reside in the market for a new way to obtain maximum performance of the product. At contain oleic acid, oil is beneficial for bone growth and development of the brain and nervous system. It produces no cholesterol and is great for cardiovascular and circulatory diseases.