The Health Benefits of Olive Oil
Living Tree Community Foods Raw Alive Organic Olive Oil is an outstanding product from a company that I simply adore.
I’ve written before extolling the virtues of Living Tree’s nut and coconut butters, and today I am telling you you’ve never tasted an olive oil live this!
Benefits Of Olive Oil:
Types of Olive Oil
Remember: Olive oil has 3 enemies: heat, light and oxygen. Thus, the less the olives are processed, the healthier the oil and the better the taste.
The beauty of Living Tree’s Olive Oil is that it is organic, unheated (created below 70 degrees F), unpressed (it is created in a state-of-the-art water-jacketed centrifuge) and is never exposed to heat higher than 70 degrees Farenheit. The result is olive oil that’s chock full of polyphenols and (antioxidants) to say nothing of the superior taste.
Honestly, I have never quite understood when people talk about the” flavor” of olive oil. To me, even expensive bottles have always tasted, well, just oily! Like, olive oil without balsamic? No way!
I’ve come to expect nothing less than excellence from Living Tree products, yet even I was surprised at this olive oil’s distinctive flavor and velvety texture. This oil stands alone- all you need to enhance any dish is a teaspoonful, some herbs and maybe a squeeze of lemon.
Living Tree packages all of its products beautifully and Alive Olive Oil is no exception. From the Vincent van Gogh Olive Grove painting featured on the label, to the cork bottle stopper, this is a first class bottle that has a luxurious aura. And, at only $14.99 for 25.4 fluid ounces, we can all feel like we are uncorking a bottle of fine wine every time we need a drizzle on our penne or a delicate dip for our focaccia.
The only problem: I am totally spoiled now. Like, I already know I’d better keep an extra bottle on hand at ALL TIMES because there is no way I will be satisfied with the run of the mill organic, extra virgin stuff I have always used, thinking it was the best thing out there. An olive oil snob! That’s me!
Check out www.livingtreecommunityfoods.com or try Whole Foods (where I got mine).
Mange!
August 13th, 2007 at 8:57 am
I used to not like olive oil but love it now. I quite often put some cloves of garlic into the bottle to give it flavour - it’s much cheaper doing it that way than it is to buy “garlic flavoured” olive oil.