Olive oil

On the contrary than wine, virgin oil loses quality with the passage of the time (it is optimum within a year). Let us keep it and use it so that it keeps its proprieties up to maximum

How can we do it

Let us keep the oil in a dark, cold and dry place. On the labels of ecological oils will be shown the year when olives were picked up.
When we fry, don't let that it ever smokes because then toxic compounds are formed (even it endures more than other vegetable oils) It is said that it can be reused to fry 5 or 6 times.

Oil forms a film on the surface of wastewaters that does not permit that water gets oxygenated and therefore that it gets purified. Let us avoid such a contamination.

How can we do it

Do not throw used oil to the drain; let us keep and take it later on to the dump. We can also make soap of it, or biodiesel.

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Data d'actualització: 10/06/2010 - 19:28

Keep this in mind!

Virgin olive oil is very nutritious, the refined one (labelled as olive oil), not so much.

At the Mediterranean basin there is a big production of olives and ecological oil.

If we buy the olive oil for all the year at an agrarian shop on crop time, we will promote rural environment.

Information sources

Companies and Sectorial organizations: Consell Oleícola Internacional, Almazara Ecológica de la Rioja, Cooperativa Agrícola Sant Jaume Apòstol, Federació de Cooperatives Agràries de Catalunya, Grupo Borges, La Labranza Toledana, Oliflix, Olivar de Segura;

administrations: Comitè Andalús d'Agricultura Ecològica, Consell Català de la Producció Agrària Ecològica, Junta d'Extremadura;

magazines: Alimarket;

books: several authors, Sabores del Mediterráneo. Aportaciones para promover un patrimonio alimentario común, Institut Europeu de la Mediterrània 2005;

organizations: Fundació Catalana per la Prevenció de Residus i el Consum Responsable, Fundación CARTIF, Sindicato de Obreros del Campo.