Category/Olive oils

Olive oils

Categories

Supercategories

The olive oils fit in a hierarchy of categories:

• Vegetable oils

• Olive tree products

• Vegetable fats

• Fats
• Plant-based foods
• Plant-based foods and beverages

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;

Related

Products that contain mainly olive oil:

• Olive oil sprays

• Flavoured olive oils have extra ingredients.

Production process/labels

The most important labels:

Nutritional information

	10%	90%
Energy (kJ/100ml)	94	167
Fat (%)	0	0.5
Saturated fat (%)	0	0.1
Carbohydrates (%)	1	7
Sugars (%)	0.8	2
Fiber (%)	0	0.5
Proteins (%)	0.12	0.7
Salt (%)	0	0
Vitamin C (mg/100ml)	12	31
Fruit (%)	100	100

Nutriscore

Nutriscore C with nutritional values between -5 and -3.

References

• Wikipedia