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Thanks to its incredible versatility, olive oil can be used in every kind of cooking. The best ones have surely been the Southern people who, using the healthy “Mediterranean diet”, hold a record for the lowest rates of cardiovascular disease. So, oil as a source of health and life! Calabria, thanks to its geographical position and to the nature of its lands, is particularly suitable for the cultivation of olive trees. The Cuda brothers are one of the most successful in the region, a business situated in the area of Crotone, in Petilia Policastro, Calabria, works with success in the field of trade and of the bottling of oil since 1950. The excellent Oil originates from the charming hills of the Sila, with its strong taste and its gold yellow colour of brothers Cuda. This success is largely due to the fact that the oil is produced using only the first olives’ pressing, without any chemical manipulation, all in consideration of nature! No Longer First Press, now Cold Pressed.
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The
olive tree has been known and used, for thousands of years, it can even be
dated back to the prehistoric age. According to several studies, its place
of origin is a region which is situated between the South of Caucasus and
Iran, Syria and Palestine. Thanks to the Phoenician people, who founded
their colonies in the Mediterranean, it also spread to Italy. The olive
tree is nowadays one of the prevailing cultivations in the Mediterranean
countries and it has since then represented a richness from the
nutritional and the productive point of view. The oil was in fact used not
only to enrich the food, with its strong and important taste, but also in
the massages, in cosmetics, in ho
me lighting and to treat wounds.