A generic brand is a brand that is not heavily advertised or known. Sometimes this term is used to refer to a specific private label brand. In the olive oil distribution realm, customers often ask for a ‘generic brand’, meaning that they will accept any brand that is in inventory.
A substance present in cereal grains, esp. wheat, that is responsible for the elastic texture of dough. A mixture of two proteins, it causes illness in people with celiac disease. Olive oil is naturally gluten free.
The total weight of both the oil and the packaging.
A harvesting method that utilizes only manual picking. This process avoids any accidental bruising of the olives, but is much more time consuming and as a result, causes the olive oil to cost more than its mechanically picked counterpart.
In the olive oil industry, the process of picking olives from the trees once they are ripe.
In the olive oil industry, the season that harvesting olives and pressing olive oil usually occurs. In the Mediterranean, this season is from October - January. This time period varies in other countries.
One of the common solvents used to expel oil from olive pomace and other seeds like Canola, Soybean, Sunflower, etc. See Solvent Extraction for more information.
Infusion is a method of flavor enhancement that adds the flavor of herbs or fruits into olive oil by crushing the produce along with the olives before pressing. Alternatively, this process could instead involve steeping the herbs/fruits in the oil allow it to absorb the flavor. Centra Foods does not currently carry this type of oil.
