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We don't grow olive trees, we grow soil: how the root microbiome makes polyphenols
Polyphenols were never the goal. We were farming for drought resilience on dead soil. What the root microbiome did to the fruit chemistry was the surprise.

Nicolas Netien
10 min read


Olive Oil Packaging: Glass Is Clean Until You Need a Cap
Olive oil packaging is usually judged by the bottle, but the bottle is rarely the problem. Glass is inert, yet it needs a cap, and plasticizers migrate from cap gaskets into the oil, sometimes above EU limits. Microplastics enter during milling, not the container. Oleaphen's Chief Scientist explains what keeps an olive oil clean: a plastic-free mill, no plastic closure, a cold chain, and testing.

Nicolas Netien
8 min read


Are There Microplastics in Your Olive Oil?
Microplastics in olive oil now show up in almost every sample tested, and research finds no real difference between glass and plastic bottles, so most contamination happens during milling, not the container. Oleaphen's Chief Scientist, with over fifteen years in olive oil, shares what he found when his own plastic-free oil picked up plasticizer from a glass bottle cap.

Nicolas Netien
4 min read


Harnessing Nature’s Power for Carbon Sequestration and a Climate-Friendly Olive Oil
Learn how Oleaphen is fighting climate change through regenerative agriculture and carbon sequestration.

Nicolas Netien
1 min read
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