Five Days to Release of CSOO

Today's Fun Fact from The Chemical Story of Olive Oil (CSOO)
It is best to buy olive oil with a harvest date on the bottle and make sure that date is as close as possible to the current date!  Olive oil tastes best and is most healthy within weeks-months of harvest. It is sad but true that some oils travel in tankers around the world for months to years waiting till the price of oil to rise at which point it is off-loaded, packaged and delivered to consumers. 

Tank Farm with Millions of Gallons of Monovarietal Oil

Standards Testing Lab in Australia

In "Getting the Oil to You" Chapter 6 of CSOO,* we address many of the challenges and responsibilities that surround keeping and preserving the high quality of this liquid gold until it gets to you, the consumer.  Void of preservatives, additives, or stabilizers, the oil must be treated with care and thoroughly tested and indexed to assure quality and authenticity.  We guide you through the alphabet soup of assays, FFA, PPP, DAG, DeltaK, and introduce the polyphenols that make the oil both bitter and healthy.   

*You can pre-order The Chemical Story of Olive Oil now from The Royal Society of Chemistry.