• Spain produces an average of 750,000 t - 25% is extra virgin
• Italy produces an average of 500,000 t - 50% is extra virgin
• Hellas produces an average of 350,000 t - 70% is extra virgin

IOOC statistics show that Hellas exports to Italy 100,000 tonnes extra virgin olive oil in bulkiness every year!

To produce 1 litre olive oil we use 4-5 kilos olives

• One Kilogram of Olive Oil has some 9000 calories.
• In order 1 Kilogram of Olive oil to be produced, 4-5 kilos of olives are required.
• There are more than 650 different kinds of olives.
• One of the basic constituents of olive oil, is elaic acid that prevents the HER-2/neu gene to become active. This is a cancer related gene, as it is find in some 30% of the cases found with bad breast neoplasm, as Dr. Havie Mendez of Feinberg Medical School of Northwest Chicago University proved.

The Benefits of Olive Oil

The Nutritional Values
People are discovering now, what Mediterranean peoples have known for millennia; that salubrious oil of the olive is an essential ingredient of a good life.

Olive Oil

• Is derived in a physical way; pressure or central pushing, without any chemical or heat treatment.
• The oil is 100% natural, and naturally contains anti-acidic substances.
• Its decomposition point is 220 degrees Celsius.
• Could be raised to frying temperature at least ten times without any effect.

Other vegetable Oils

• Is derived with the use of chemical dissolves and soda kawi and under high pressure.
• Needs anti-acid chemicals in order to be able to be stored.
• the decomposition point of the best of these oils is 170 degrees Celsius.
• could be raised to frying temperatures at best three times.

And other benefits..

Alternative Uses Of Olive Oil

• You can burn it and use it as a source of energy. Before electricity supplied the source of energy for lights, many cities, especially in Syria, used olive Oil as the lighting energy in their street lamps.
• You can wash with it.
• You can lubricate squeaky hinges with it.
• Cosmetics are based on it; Indians and Arabs use it as hair tonic.
• Diamonds are polished with it.
• Kings and babies are anointed with it.
• It's an amazing preservative, keeping fish, cheese, and even wine remains good for years.
• Maintaining skin and muscle suppleness.
• It acts as the perfect hair conditioner as attested by numerous Greek housewives.
• It is also said to act as the ideal burn treatment (mixed with lime and water). Some people also recommend it for its medical benefits, a Cretan farmer said "My wife suffered from back pain, somebody told her to take two tablespoons of olive oil every morning on an empty stomach. She did this for ten days and she was cured. (national geographic magazine September 1999). Although olive oil comes to us from antiquity it is still the best for our health.