Guide: Testing Extravirgin Olive Oil

With this guide, aimed to consumer, we'll try to explain in a simple but not silly way the proper charasteristics of high quality oil of olive.

The history of olive tree dates back to ancient times and goes hand in hand with that of the Mediterranean people who make it the symbol of life, peace and prosperity. It is also important in all types of religion.

It is written in Genesis that, after the Flood, Noah sent a dove to explore and find out what had become of the earth. The white dove returned bearing and olive twig in its beak, a sign that God had made peace with man. Also the Koran speaks of the olive tree as the "blessed tree", whose oil "almost gleams even though it is not touched by fire"

The olive tree is associated through myths and legends with the foundation of two cities that more than any others have influenced the history of humanity: Athens and Rome.

In the first century A.D. Columella sustains in his De Rustica that "Olea prima omnium arborum est" or "among all trees the most important is the olive"; after two thousand years things have not changed.