What is the difference between olive oil, virgin or extra virgin? What is refined and acidity?

What is the difference between olive oil, virgin or extra virgin? What is refined and acidity?

In a healthy, balanced diet should not miss edible vegetable oils, because they are essential to maintain balance of lipids, cholesterol and lipoproteins circulating in the blood and plays a vital role in our body.

Find out why you have to read the labels of packaged foods

Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, said “Let thy food be thy medicine and medicine your food”. If we remember this phrase more than 2,300 years ago it is because its effect remains and no one disputes the importance of diet on our health.

Even if you ask any child of young age what are healthy foods, know say without hesitation that fruits and vegetables.

But there is always a but vigilance on the diet that we consume and they consume our children must go further. Because most of the packaged foods we buy highly harmful fats are hidden, such as palm or coconut oil, which are growing exponentially in the food industry, its low cost and high production.

Perfect fries in 7 steps

Who does not crave a good fries? As a snack or accompaniment of dishes, are irresistible. But what seems so simple, how to make a fried egg that some would say, it is not at all. It is clear, not all chips are equal.

And how to make perfect chips? Here we give you some tricks to get it:

More than 250 business meetings on the stand of Aceites Sandúa at the Alimentaria 2016

More than 250 importers worldwide and national distributors met with staff of Aceites Sandúa, on the stand that the company remained at the Alimentaria Fair in Barcelona from 25 to 28 April last.

Aceites Sandúa at Alimentaria 2016 with his own stand

Aceites Sandua will be with its own stand at the next edition of Alimentaria, one of the largest international food and beverage fair, which will take place from 25 to 28 April in Barcelona.

The oil firm will be present in Alimentary with a stand of 12 m2, to be located in Navarra, in the Pavilion of autonomies.
SANDUA oils show there full range of oils, from its most renowned extra virgin olive oils, such as multivarietales and Arbequina varietal and empeltre; even the most demanding special oils for frying, as oil high oleic sunflower and maximum and double performance, in which a combination of noble oils, free of saturated fat, reduce the formation of smoke, odors and oxidation food

Rabbit Bittersweet

Preparation time: 60 minutes

Ingredients: 1 rabbit of 1.5 kilos approximately 50 grams. raisins, 50 gr. pine nuts, 2 bay leaves, 1 sprig of thyme, 1 sprig rosemary, 2 tablespoons of saffron, 1 tablespoon of flour, 2 deciliter of broth, 1 deciliter of Virgin Olive Oil Extra Large Selection Sandúa 1 deciliter white wine, salt and pepper.

The 5 essential benefits of sunflower oil

Goat cheese salad with mango and extra virgin olive oil

Goat cheese salad with mango and extra virgin olive oil

INGREDIENTS FOR DICE CHEESECAKE:

350 g goat cheese
150 g cream
14 g of gellan gum
50 ml of Extra Virgin Olive Oil
200 g of mango puree
2 sheets of gelatin

INGREDIENTS FOR COOKIE Gingerbread:

80 ml of milk
50g butter
20 g of powdered spices
100 g almond flour
40 g flour
Salt c. s.

INGREDIENTS FOR SALAD:

baby mesclun
petals
germinated

INGREDIENTS FOR BITTER AND PICA Vinaigrette:

50 ml of vinegar Chardonnay
150 ml of Extra Virgin Olive Oil Sandúa Great Selection

Loaf toasted bread with garlic and extra virgin olive oil

Loaf toasted bread with garlic and extra virgin olive oil

Ingredients:

 -We recommend Pan bread loaf.

 -1 clove garlic

Extra virgin olive oil Capricho by Sandúa Arbequina

Cut a slice of bread or more, as you have hunger and roast. If you do not have toaster nothing happens. You put a frying pan and when hot well miss the slice of bread in keeping an eye on the bread lightly browned without being burned.

While the bread is toasting in the pan, peel the garlic clove and cut a half ot it.

Once the bread is ready, rubs one side of the medium roasted garlic clove. It is flavored bread, so do not rub it with panache but the garlic flavor is too strong.

The next step is to spray some extra virgin olive oil from Arbequina Sandúa Capricho by Sandúa on toast and that will give a unique and different flavor. Let stand a few seconds until the oil toast absorb it.

Accompany toast with your favorite coffee with milk. Find your favorite place, take the newspaper and begins your day with healthy and balanced.

Caprese salad with extra virgin olive oil

Caprese salad with dressing extra virgin olive oil

INGREDIENTS:

 – 1 large tomato.

 – 250 g of fresh buffalo mozzarella

 – Some fresh basil leaves

 – Extra virgin olive oil Capricho by Sandúa Empeltre Sandúa

 – Freshly ground black pepper

 ELABORATION:

 Wash well and we start tomato slices. If you do not like tomato skin, or very simply, you can scald a few seconds and peel.

 We set also sliced mozzarella.

 Alternate tomato slices with mozzarella and fresh basil put above.

 Salt and pepper to taste and sprinkle everything with a splash of extra virgin olive oil Capricho by Sandúa Empeltre.