What Makes Moroccan Extra Virgin Olive Oil Best For Health?
Updated 5th October 2022
Moroccan extra virgin olive oil is prized for its high quality and rich flavor. But did you know that it also has a host of health benefits? Here’s a closer look at why this oil is so good for you.
- Choosing a quality extra virgin olive oil is best option for your health
- Moroccan Extra Virgin Olive Oil has a unique and enviable range of health benefits due to quality of olive oil production
- Range of Polyphenols In Moroccan Extra Virgin Olive Oil contribute to major health benefits
- Morocco Gold 2022 Harvest now available with range of cost incentives
Health-conscious food lovers are constantly seeking the best olive oil in the world and when it comes to health and wellness, we believe that Moroccan Extra Virgin Olive Oil is world class.
By choosing a high quality, cold pressed olive oil such as Morocco Gold you can help to protect your own health and wellbeing and reduce the risk of many life-threatening conditions, including heart disease, high LDL (bad) cholesterol and some cancers.
The higher the quality of extra virgin olive oil, the stronger the concentration of powerful antioxidants or polyphenols. The concentration of polyphenols in Morocco Gold extra virgin olive oil is higher than ever before, at 644mg/kg.
Why Now Is The Time To Choose Moroccan Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Many traditional olive oil producing countries have been suffering from a plant disease spread by a sap-sucking insects. They have been devastating olive and fruit orchards across southern Europe. Xyella Fastidosa is the technical term for this disease.
In particular, the outbreak has amplified problems in Italy’s strained olive oil sector. In 2018, the country reported a 57% drop in its olive harvest compared to 2017 – a 25-year low. Researchers blamed a frosty spring followed by a summer drought. This weakened the olive trees and left them even more susceptible to infection.
Olive Oil Produced In Morocco
Morocco is a country of rich geographical and cultural diversity. It is also a country undergoing major transformation. Celebrating it’s rich heritage, whilst modernising key sectors of it’s economy. This includes it’s thriving agricultural sector. A key part of which is olive cultivation and the production of olive oil.
While olive cultivation has been part of Morocco’s agricultural scene since the Roman era. And Morocco is the world’s sixth largest producer of olive oil. Unbelievably, the quality and compositional peculiarities of Moroccan olive oil have been relatively unknown.
Morocco is the fourth largest producer of olive oil in the world of which a significant quantity is now sold to the countries that are being impacted by the xyella virus and blended into their locally produced olive oils to make up the shortfall in harvest. This is unbeknown to the customers in these countries and in their export markets.
However, in Morocco, olive oil production and olive oil quality have not been affected by the zyella bacterium.
What Makes Moroccan The Best Extra Virgin Olive Oil?
Morocco has the ideal climate for olive cultivation – mild winters, and warm, dry summers. The soils in the main olive growing regions near Taounate, Taza, Fez, Meknes, Beni Mellal, and Marrakech are rich and deep, and generally have an equal balance of clay and coarse sands.
For instance, the climate is also slightly harsher than in other olive oil producing countries. Morocco Gold olives are grown in a valley that is about 2,000 feet above sea level. This helps to create the additional climatic challenges that encourage polyphenol uptake within the olive tree. It is also an area with naturally occurring high phenols in the soil itself.
So Why Is Moroccan Olive Oil Good For You?
There are a number of different types of polyphenols in extra virgin olive oil, including oleuropein, tyrosol, hydroxytyrosol, oleocanthal and oleacein. Each are considered extremely strong antioxidants, and are linked to a number of extra virgin olive oil benefits including:
- Maintenance of normal blood pressure
- Keeping the upper respiratory tract healthy
- Protecting proteins in the brain that are involved in memory, learning and thinking
- Helping to keep blood sugar under control
- Treating the symptoms of and/or preventing type 2 diabetes
- Protecting blood lipids from oxidative damage
- Acting as an anti-inflamatory
About Morocco Gold Extra Virgin Olive Oil
In addition, Morocco Gold is a superior quality, single estate extra virgin olive oil from an entirely new source for the UK market. The oil is made from olives grown in the foothills of the Atlas mountains in Morocco, where the unique micro-climate and geology provides ideal conditions for olive growing.
Morocco Gold combines centuries of local cultivation and harvesting knowledge. Our rigorous traceability and quality assurance procedures bring this unique oil to international markets.
The oil produced from the Picholine Marocaine cultivar is distinctive. Similarly, this gives Morocco Gold it’s distinctive green fruitiness, hints of sweet almonds, fresh turf and a hint of herbs. It has the distinctive ‘pepperiness’ of a fine extra virgin olive oil giving Morocco Gold a clean, well balanced finish.
In summary extra virgin olive oil has a high concentration of polyphenols. This gives Morocco Gold it’s oxidative stability that not only extends shelf-life but also provides the health enhancing properties associated with high quality extra virgin olive oils. The European Food Safety Agency has now approved health claims for extra virgin olive oil with a polyphenol content of more than 250mg / kg. Our test results consistently show polyphenol content well above this level.
