Mirabello olive oil is above the competition in the olive oil market. Why?
Mirabello Union succeeded with 22 growers* to move the production of olive oil with an environmental statement certified from International EPD System. This means that, such an olive oil, contributes to the mitigation of climate change and those growers are the first in the world who made an olive oil that does not burden the environment and eliminates carbon emissions.* In cooperation with two other farmers groups of Peza Union (also in Crete) and NILEAS in Peloponnese.
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"The farmers commit to avoid certain environmental risks, such as polluting, and to continue to make improvements that benefit the products and the environment", says George Michalopoulos, a LCA operator and an internal auditor for the three groups of farmers and their traceability system.
Olive oil has been a core product for the Mediterranean region since bronze-age. Except from nutrition it was -and still is- essential for a large number of other uses such as:
- skin care and protection,
- as sun-screen,
- for wound healing,
- soap making,
- illumination,
- several medical uses and
- a carrier for essential and aromatic oils.
During the last decades it has been found that its health related properties were not just established beliefs or myths. It has been scientifically substantiated that its benefits for health can be attributed to its wealth of compounds such as vitamin E, phenolic compounds which are powerful antioxidants and protect LDL cholesterol from oxidative damage and above all the mono-unsaturated oleic acid. The latter, highly present in olive oil, helps maintaining healthy cholesterol levels. Olive oil improves blood lipid profile.
«Mediterranean diet» is one of the ways to refer to healthy eating.
A Mediterranean style diet helps maintain heart health. Olive oil could be considered as the lipid ‘heart’ of Mediterranean diet. Olive fruit presence in the above beneficial constituents depends on the climate and environmental conditions, but also on the quality of farmer’s practices up to harvest. Then, in the olive oil mill, the process to produce olive oil from the olive fruit with minimal losses of the valuable ingredients is determined by the term ‘gently’.
What makes mirabello extra virgin olive oil special??
Neither chemical nor thermal processes are involved in the production of olive oil. - No ancillary material is added at any step, apart from water to facilitate separation of lipid from water phase.
- Temperatures remain low in the processes of olive oil mill for best results.
- Packing material is chosen so as to prevent exposure of light sensitive compounds of olive oil to sunlight. This condition and low temperature of storage to delay oxidative processes are the two secrets for long term storage until consumption.
Each of the three groups of farmers produces its own identity of extra virgin olive oil, with different sensory characteristics. Only some of our olive oil is organic, as the effort to convert to biological production methods is still undergoing.
All the EPD Extra virgin olive oil is compliant to the EU regulations 1019/2002 and 796/2002 and IOOC1
The functional unit is 0.75 litre of extra virgin oil including packaging in colored glass bottles, to be used by consumers as salad-dressing and for cooking.
Content of materials & chemical substances
No additives. Only extra virgin oil is contained in the glass bottles.
