The super super healthy olive oil

15 October 2018

The super super healthy olive oil

Some of the world’s top academic institutions are studying the olive oil produced on an arid Cyprus farm

By Annette Chrysostomou

Recently there has been a huge surge in international publications hailing the multiple positive health effects of olive oil. But not just any olive oil. It must contain a large number of phenolic compounds.

All these latest developments in the field mean that Yale University has suddenly become very interested in a Cyprus farm. Just this week, the prestigious university has contacted Nicolas Netien, who has been the Cyprus-based world record holder in phenolic olive oil for the past three years.

French environmental engineer Netien and his team have in the past three years planted 6,000 olive trees at Atsas farm in the buffer zone near Morphou bay, and as they continue to grow the production of oil has doubled every year.

 

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