Picual Olive Oil

It is without doubt the world's most important variety and also of Spain, because in our country, about 50% of olive plantations are picual. Specifically Andalusia is the region that produces this variety worldwide, highlighting in particular: Jaen, Cordoba and Granada. Its area is about 600,000 hectares.

Regarding to what interests us, the extra virgin oil derived from the Picual variety is excellent for our health and body precisely because of its fatty acid composition and quantity of natural antioxidants. It is high in monounsaturated oleic acid that prevents cardiovascular disease, low in linoleic acid (which is essential to the human diet but not excessively) and a high content of polyphenols.

All these features lead us to the most stable extra virgin olive oil, thus having a longer period of life and being excellent for everyday use in our kitchens because of its behavior in the face of thermal is excellent.

Given its size, there are a large variety of picual oils whose characteristics are often different if we are in plain or mountain, because in the first case, in plain, we will meet with oils with great body, normally bitter and some wood flavor; while mountain, are usually sweeter, cool and pleasant.

We may find in the market countless picual oils and most likely is we could doubt which one to choose. For this reason our experts have selected for you some of that in our opinion has a better value, many of them winners of the best fairs Virgin Olive Oil. Do not miss this opportunity and try our list of oils.