About Olive Oil
Why Olive Oil?
Unlike butter and artificial unhealthy fat, Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO) is loaded with monounsaturated fat, which has been proven good for your heart and good for your health. Inside each and every delicious Sweet Denial cookie, we use only American made, fresh pressed 100% EVOO from California. Because our special blend of EVOO is made right here in the USA, we know that it is the real deal and the freshest olive oil available.
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Why Olive Oil from California
Our California olive oil is the freshest and most verifiable EVOO available. Our California olive oil blends perfectly with our cookie recipes. We have personally visited the California olive orchards where our olive oil is grown, milled and pressed.
Once the olives are removed from the trees they begin to deteriorate and become rancid. Olive oil is precious and very sensitive to air, light and heat. The milling process used when pressing our olive oil minimizes all three of those possible sensitivities. They do this by harvesting, milling, pressing and bottling all in one facility close to the olive orchards. When processing olive oil, it is of the utmost importance that the olives are processed as quickly as possible. Because we have personally witnessed this harvesting and milling process of our California olive oil, we know we are getting the real deal and that is something we are not in denial about!
When your olive oil is shipped from overseas, it is often difficult to guarantee the freshness or authenticity of the olive oil. A recent study by the University of California at Davis exposed the sad truth about some of the imported olive oil purchased on the open market. Approximately 69% of what was labeled as EVOO was not EVOO and in some cases the oil was not olive oil at all.
UC Davis Report
http://olivecenter.ucdavis.edu/news-events/news/files/olive%20oil%20final%20071410%20.pdf