Category/Olive oils
Categories
Supercategories
The olive oils fit in a hierarchy of categories:
Subcategories
The olive oils can be subdivided based on the level of processing, the origin of the olive oil or added ingredients:
Processing level
- Olive pomace oils(0.3% of the olive oils);
- Refined olive oils(0.2% of the olive oils);
- Virgin olive oils(83% of the olive oils);
- Extra virgin olive oils(81% of the olive oils);
- Olive oil mixes for products that combine multiple processing levels;
Origin
The products contain olive oils from a specific country or region (PDO)
Related
Products that contain mainly olive oil:
- Flavoured olive oils have extra ingredients.
Ingredients
Required ingredients
Optional ingredients
Disallowed ingredients
Production process/labels
The most important labels:
Nutritional information
It seems that some producers do not actually measure the nutritional values, but use canonical values. The nutritional values can be presented per 100g or per 100ml.
| 10% | 90% | Canonical | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Energy (kJ/100ml) | 94 | 167 | 3700 |
| Energy(kcal/100ml) | 900 | ||
| Fat (%) | 0 | 0.5 | |
| Saturated fat (%) | 0 | 0.1 | |
| Carbohydrates (%) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sugars (%) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Fiber (%) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Proteins (%) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Salt (%) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vitamin E (mg/100ml) | 12 | 31 | |
| Fruit (%) | 100 | 100 |
Nutriscore
Nutriscore C with nutritional values between -5 and -3.