Olive oil comes in many varieties and flavours that change depending on soil, climate, age, and production. The most refined olive oil is called 'extra virgin.' To be called so, the olives need to be ...

Most of the world’s olive oil comes from the Mediterranean, with Italy, Spain, Tunisia and Greece as the top producers. The crop is also grown in the United States, mostly in California, but there are ...

Palm oil is used in a plethora of household products, from food items like packaged pastries and chips to cosmetics and soaps or even biofuels. But most palm oil is produced on mono-crop plantations, ...

The government understandably hopes that palm oil harvested from seized plantations will remain marketable. The narrative of ...

Warm, nutty aromas perfume the air at the La Tourangelle oil mill in northwest Woodland. Walnuts, almonds and pistachios constantly circulate the production facility, undergoing more than 16 hours of ...

A new study identifies the palm oil mills in Indonesia with the most clearance of orangutan habitat happening around them. The top 10 mills are all on the island of Borneo and are producing palm oil ...