CERTIFIED QUALITY

Our ethics are the bedrock of what we do and of what we communicate. By doing so we enrich our clients experience with an emotional awareness that enables them to trust and identify themselves with our work and our Organic Olive Oil.

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The standards to define a good Olive Oil

There are unequivocal industry standards to define what can be called a EVOO and what cannot be called EVOO and you can read about them here. Having said that, quality is not defined by these criteria, they are an industry standard agreed amongst producers and bottlers with very different and often conflicting objectives, thus they are a compromise that helps categorize minimum requirements for EVOO labelling.

Today is a period of great awareness of the biochemical processes of olive production and oil extraction; it is the first time in thousands of years that so many marvellous options are available to farmers and olive oil producers to influence and steward their work towards specific quality goals.

This opportunity allows producers to follow different passions, paths and intuitions. Every farm, every mill and thus each Olive Oil is ultimately a story made by and of human beings, their emotions, their dreams, tastes and by their ethics.

Chemical characteristics

A great Olive Oil must by all means have certain chemical characteristics, amongst them a low content of free fatty acids below 0.025, low peroxides below 5, low acidity below 0.5, high Phenol count above 400 ppm and high content of Tocopherols over 160 ppm.

These key chemical ingredients are not enough in defining quality, they are just part of the story.

Chemical analysis

Acidity 0,25%
Oleic acid 67,94%
Total Peroxides   4,98 mEq O2/kg
Total polyphenols

815,60 mg/kg

K232 2,23
k270 0,17
DELTA K 0,0 

The high content of polyphenols in our oil

Olive oil polyphenols contribute to the protection of blood lipids from oxidative stress.
The beneficial effect is obtained with a daily intake of 20 g of evoo containing at least 5 mg of hydroxytyrosol and its derivatives.
EFSA approved health claim on olive oil polyphenols (commission regulation(EU) 432/2012) &regulation ec 1924/2006.

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Nutritional information

AVERAGE VALUES FOR 100ML OF OIL
Energy Kcal824 / Kj3389
Fats 92g
of which Saturated 12g
Carbohydrates 0g
of which sugar 0g
Proteins 0g
Salt 0g

We Believe

that the ethics of a food producer deeply affects the quality of his produce, and it cannot deviate from the fundamental values of honesty, transparency and sustainability; producing a nutrient that will be eaten by someone is a very serious responsibility.

Our ethics are the bedrock of what we do and of what we communicate. By doing so we enrich our clients experience with an emotional awareness that enables them to trust and identify themselves with our work and our oil. This is also an important element of Quality. At the same time, ethics is not physical parameter, it will be reflected in our produce it will define it but yet it won’t be tasted in it!
So, we have to find something common in all of us that can be used as a means of understanding, a sensorial language that we all share and that we can talk to. The ability to sense the freshness of a food is something that is instinctively with us since childhood. We all have it in our DNA, we just need to trust our instinct to detect it.  This is why amongst Olive Oil experts freshness has been pinpointed as a key component of quality.

quality olea prilis believe

After an immediate message of freshness comes the aromatic complexity and intensity that the Olive Oil must be able to express. The experience in your mouth has to result in a balance between bitterness, fruitiness and pungency all in harmony amongst them and with a multitude of natural olfactory sensations.
These quality factors in a first class Olive Oils are defined by the cultivars of the olives used, the harvest time, the terroir and above all by the milling practices. If the latter are properly managed, the resulting Olive Oil will manifest the benefits of reduced stress and oxidation.

Certified quality oil

Tuscan Extra Virgin Olive Oil CERTIFICATE OF CONFORMITY

Tuscan EVOO

Tuscan Olive Oil, a unique heritage of the territory and culture of this region of Italy, is protected since 1998 by the officially recognized denomination of Protected Geographical Indication. Tuscan IGPOlive Oil offers maximum certainty in terms of authenticity. The Consortium guarantees each bottle with its seal verifying the entire production chain, rigorously made in Tuscany, from the tree to the bottle. Toscano IGP Olive Oil is also subject to rigorous chemical and sensorial tests to check its compliance with the production protocol.

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Organic

To be classified as organic, olive oil has to adhere to very strict production specifications that start out in the field before finishing up in the bottle.
Olea Prilis Olive Oil is certified as an organic product. Download our certification.

Consiglio Oleicolo Internazionale

Extra Virgin Olive Oil 

Extra virgin is the highest grade olive oil according to industry standards. However the standard set for this classification is truly mediocre, and of course our Olea Prilis organic olive oil fits in this category, but since the category has such low standards and we are not allowed to call our oil in any distinctive way from the broad definition, we simply prefer to define ourselves as producers of Organic Olive Oil. Our product is so much richer in antioxidants and anti-inflammatory molecules, of vitamin E and its acidity is at least one quarter of the standard set for EVOO, and so on in every parameter we can analyse, why should we promote or benchmark on such low quality standards? We are way better! We are not a multinational producer that survives thanks to lobbying politicians or the COI, we are a straight forward farming family and proud producer of quality Organic Olive Oil.

Consiglio Oleicolo Internazionale

FDA Certificate of Registration

This certificate affirms that the Società Agricola Swiss Olives S.S. is registered with the US FDA pursuant to the regulations required by the US laws.

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