OLIVA
Early harvest extra virgin from Spain
Cold-pressed, award-winning oils straight from family farms in Andalusia and La Mancha. At your door in 1–2 working days.
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The price question
The same words on the label do not mean the same product in the bottle. The difference starts with the bottle itself.
Dark glass, one farm, one variety
Clear glass or plastic, no farm name
The difference in your kitchen — about 11 cents a day.
What is early harvest?Early harvest
Olives can be picked green or ripe. That choice decides almost everything you taste in the bottle — and what the bottle costs.
Picked in October, still unripe. A ripe olive gives more oil but less of everything else — aroma, polyphenols, character.
300–600 mg/kg instead of the usual 50–150. These are the antioxidants that protect the oil itself from going off, and blood lipids from oxidative stress.
Freshly cut grass, artichoke, green apple. The bitterness on the tongue and the pepper in the throat are not a defect — they are a sign of freshness and polyphenols.
Green olives yield considerably less oil than ripe ones. That is why the batches are limited and a litre costs more than it does in a supermarket.
The polyphenol claim comes from the European Commission list of authorised health claims; it applies to oils containing at least 5 mg of hydroxytyrosol and its derivatives per 20 g of oil, at a daily intake of 20 g.
What it does for you
Early harvest oil differs from ordinary oil not in its label but in what survives inside it. Three reasons to pour it every day.
Olive oil is almost entirely unsaturated fat. Replacing saturated fats with unsaturated ones in the diet helps maintain normal blood cholesterol levels.
Early harvest oil holds 300–500 mg/kg of polyphenols — several times more than ordinary oil. Olive oil polyphenols help protect blood lipids from oxidative stress.
Olive oil is a natural source of vitamin E, which contributes to the protection of cells from oxidative stress.
The claims about unsaturated fats, olive oil polyphenols and vitamin E come from the European Commission list of authorised health claims.
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Transparency
The olives are picked while still green, when they hold the most polyphenols and the least acidity.
From tree to mill the same day, at below 27 °C.
The oil is bottled straight after pressing and travels to us — not to a warehouse.
From our warehouse in Lithuania. There is nothing else between the farm and you.
What customers say
Loved it. Weekend breakfast is hard to imagine without it now.
Wonderful oils, incredibly tasty — and as a nutritionist I value them all the more, because I know what they do for the body.
A fantastic oil. Mild in taste and genuinely well made.
Before you buy
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Because it is a different product. Supermarket oil is usually a blend from several farms, made from a late harvest a year or two ago. Ours comes from one farm, one variety, an early and fresh harvest. Spread over a day, the difference is about 11 cents.
That is the mark of polyphenols — the same antioxidants that make olive oil healthy. The sharper the sting in the throat, the fresher and more valuable the oil. Poor oil has none of it at all.
You can — the smoke point of extra virgin oil is around 190–210 °C, which is enough for pan frying. But early harvest oil shows its best cold, so use something simpler for frying and pour this one over the finished dish.
About 2–3 months. Keep it somewhere dark and cool, away from the stove and the window — light, heat and air are the enemies of oil. It does not need the fridge.
For an average household, about two months if you use it on salads, vegetables and bread. If you cook every day and use it generously — about a month.
Orders placed before 14:00 on a working day are shipped the same day. The parcel reaches the locker in 1–2 working days. Delivery is free from €49.99.
Write to us with a photo — we replace it free and without argument. Bottles travel in a protective cardboard insert, but things happen.
Yes, within 14 days of receiving it, if the packaging is undamaged. We refund the full price of the item.
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