Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Certification : COA/ MSDS, Packaging Type : HDPE drums

Listing ID #1623287

We are offering extra virgin olive oil, olive oil is a fat obtained from the olive (the fruit of olea europaea; familyoleaceae), a traditional tree crop of the mediterranean basin. The oil is produced by pressing whole olives and is commonly used in cooking,cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and soaps, and as a fuel for traditional oil lamps.
olive oil has been used for religious rituals, medicines, as a fuel in oil lamps, soap-making, and skin care application. The minoans used olive oil in religious ceremonies. The oil became a principal product of the minoan civilization, where it is thought to have represented wealth. The minoans put the pulp into settling tanks and, when the oil had risen to the top, drained the water from the bottom.[citation needed] olive tree growing reached iberia and etruscan cities well before the 8th century bc through trade with the phoenicians and carthage, then was spread into southern gaul by the celtictribes during the 7th century bc.