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Category: Wellbeing blog

Posted on June 4, 2020June 4, 2020

Introducing our exciting new look!

By now you will hopefully have seen our brand new look and love it as much as we do! This new look isn’t just about giving our packaging some ‘new clothes’, it’s been a huge project for the team; a journey of digging deeper into our values and purpose as a business.

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Posted on November 4, 2019January 9, 2020

Olive oil: the painkiller with side-benefits

A pounding headache. An achy knee. Arthritic knuckles. A fever. That little packet of painkillers we keep around is so much more handy than going out and picking mandrake or henbane, like people had to do in the Middle Ages.

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Posted on October 17, 2019January 9, 2020

Olives – touching a nerve

You reach for a succulent green olive, flecked with aromatic herbs and loaded with taste. Your thumb and finger close around it and your arm takes the olive to its final destination – your open mouth.

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Posted on September 9, 2019January 9, 2020

A new partnership with the Sustainable Soils Alliance!

Soil health has always been a guiding principle for us when trying to find farmers to work with to grow our olives, the ingredients for the blends and our other Mediterranean delights.

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Posted on June 3, 2019January 9, 2020

Olives and olive oil can help prevent skin cancer

Now that the sun is out, it seems like a good time to mention some great news: olives and olive oil can help prevent skin cancer.

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Posted on March 7, 2019January 9, 2020

Build up your ‘bone bank’ with olives and their oil

We’re all familiar with the concept of laying down reserves of money to live off later in life, when we’ve had enough of the office and want to sail the world or retire to grow vegetables. The same idea can be applied to our health – especially when it comes to building up our bones.

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