THE SCIENCE
We are proud to bring you the first UK Trading Standards approved extra virgin olive oil which is Positively Good for You and Heart Healthy, with our commitment to quality, taste and integrity.
MEET DR SIMON POOLE
Dr Simon Poole is an internationally acclaimed motivational and inspirational speaker, communicator and consultant in health promotion and wellness, the mediterranean diet and lifestyle, and the nutrition of extra virgin olive oil.
With more than 30 years' experience as a medical doctor, teacher and researcher in Cambridge, Simon is widely published in the media, radio and TV, as well as academic journals, and is author of award winning books.
Simon is a Senior International Collaborator with the Global Centre for Nutrition and Health in Cambridge, a Member of the International Academy of Nutrition Educators and a Fellow of the British Medical Association.
He has written numerous books and is regarded as an authority on the subject. Simon is passionate about communicating ways to achieve a healthy lifestyle and has dedicated his career to practising and teaching the life-changing benefits of adopting a Mediterranean Diet with high polyphenol extra virgin olive oil at its heart.
Those benefits include the presence of the healthy fat oleic acid which lowers cholesterol, and also important compounds called polyphenols in some exceptional extra virgin olive oils which protects the cholesterol from "oxidative stress" - the damaging changes in blood vessels which lead to coronary heart disease.
The European Food Safety Authority has recognised the power of the properties of extra virgin olive oil with a minimum of 250mg/kg total polyphenols consumed at 20mls per day.
Together we constantly monitor the production from selected farmers who contribute to the cooperative at the modern and well-equipped mill at Bailen in Spain's Andalusia province.
