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What is a Good Polyphenol Count in Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil?
Discover the ideal polyphenol count in olive oil and how it impacts taste, health benefits, and shelf life.
Our Olive Oil
It all started with a book that Nion gave to his mother – The Feast of the Olive by Maggie Klein. Rumor has it that after reading the book, Nan contacted Maurizio Castelli, one of Italy’s foremost experts on the subject, and three days later, he was at the Ranch setting out a game plan that would one day lead us from “olive oil for our kitchen table” to “world-renowned olive oil.”
Best Olive Oil for Cooking: A Taste Test Guide to Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Drizzle Bottles, and Olive Oils for Cooking
The best olive oil for cooking is the one that tastes fresh and suits the job. This taste test guide shows how to read grassy, fruity, peppery, and mild tasting notes, judge freshness from the harvest date, and split your kitchen between a cooking bottle and a drizzle bottle.
The Everyday Olive Oil Tin: How to Keep Better Olive Oil Within Reach
The best olive oil is the one you actually reach for. An everyday olive oil tin keeps premium extra virgin olive oil light, hard to break, and right where you cook, so you use it freely on eggs, roasted vegetables, beans, salads, toast, and weeknight pasta. Keep the tin within reach, but away from stove heat and direct sunlight.
How to Spot Fake Olive Oil and Choose Authentic Extra Virgin Olive Oil
If you have ever wondered how to tell if olive oil is real, you are not alone. Between vague labels, blended imports, and marketing language that sounds more meaningful than it is, buying a trustworthy extra virgin olive oil can feel more complicated than it should.
COOKING WITH EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OIL
EVOO is great for cooking and can be easily incorporated into almost any dish, adding new flavors and healthy polyphenols & monounsaturated fats.
HEALTH BENEFITS OF OLIVE OIL BEAUTY
Crafted in California with McEvoy Ranch Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil, we approach ODE Olive Oil Beauty with the same firm commitment to health, quality, and sustainability. Each of our products boasts the benefits of early harvest olive oil and other botanical extracts that benefit the skin.
FAQs ABOUT EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OIL
Extra virgin olive oil is fresh fruit juice, pure and simple. Despite this simplicity, the task of selecting an oil for many consumers can feel daunting, given the array of certifications, seals, and prices on seemingly identical bottles. Here at McEvoy Ranch we understand the confusion. We aim to educate our customers on this special culinary product and cultivate a great appreciation for the skill and hard work that goes into producing our extra virgin olive oil in Marin County. Within thi...
California vs Italian Olive Oil: Taste, Source, and How to Choose the Right Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Choosing the best olive oil for cooking gets easier once you stop looking for one universal answer and start matching the oil to the job. Some styles are ideal for salad dressing, some work beautifully for frying and sautéing, and some are especially useful in baking, where a gentler profile matters more than intensity. The right choice should feel like part of your everyday kitchen, not a confusing luxury purchase.
Olive Oil Tins vs. Bottles: Why the Right Container Makes Olive Oil Easier to Use Every Day
An olive oil tin is a practical container for extra virgin olive oil because it helps shield the oil from light, reduces the fragility of a glass bottle, and makes good olive oil easier to keep in regular kitchen use. This guide explains how tins, bottles, ceramic cruets, and other olive oil packaging choices affect freshness, storage, and the simple question that matters most: will you actually reach for the olive oil often enough to enjoy it at its best?
How is McEvoy Ranch Olive Oil Made?
There is a specific kind of magic that happens every autumn at McEvoy Ranch. As the air cools and the hills of Petaluma turn that perfect shade of golden amber, our olive tree groves come alive. Here is a behind the scenes look at how we transform our organic estate olives into the liquid gold you love.
Olive Oil vs Avocado Oil: Which Oil Is Best for Cooking, Flavor, and Everyday Use?
If you have ever stood in the kitchen wondering whether olive oil vs avocado oil is really a meaningful choice, you are not alone. Both oils are now treated like pantry essentials, both are discussed for health benefits, and both are constantly compared for smoke point, flavor, and better-for-cooking status. The problem is that most articles flatten the subject into one oversimplified answer.
Helen McEvoy on ODE Olive Oil Beauty
Helen McEvoy joined the McEvoy Ranch Marketing Team in 2019. She is honored to work for a business she has known her whole life and to have the opportunity to use her brand strategy experience to help evolve the McEvoy Ranch brand with a fresh perspective while preserving the legacy of craftsmanship that her family has built over the last 30 years.
WHY OLIVE OIL IS GOOD FOR YOUR HEART
As a staple of the Mediterranean diet, one of the leading diets of 2023, extra virgin olive oil has been rigorously studied. Understanding the health benefits and the way that olive oil impacts the heart has been an important undertaking in the culinary world and, throughout many studies, it has become clear that extra virgin olive oil is the best oil for your heart. EVOO contains anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties, has the highest percentage of monounsaturated fats compared to oth...
How to Choose Olive Oil for Frying, Baking & Salad Dressing: A Practical Guide to the Best Olive Oil for Cooking
The best olive oil for frying is not always the best olive oil for a vinaigrette or a lemon cake. Match the bottle to the job: a sturdy everyday extra virgin olive oil for the pan, an expressive one for finishing and dressings, and a citrus olive oil for baking and bright salads.
How is Olive Oil Made? A Guide From Olive Tree to Mill to Bottle
Learn how olive oil is made from tree to bottle. This comprehensive guide covers everything from harvesting fresh olives to production of extra virgin olive oil.
Why McEvoy Ranch Put Olive Oil in Striped Tins
This spring, McEvoy Ranch introduced a new look and a new format: the Stripes Olive Oil Collection, our certified organic olive oil in a vibrant, design-forward 200ml tin. The change is more than cosmetic. It reflects how we believe good olive oil should be experienced, which is openly, often, and while it is fresh. Here is the thinking behind the Stripes Olive Oil Collection™, what it does for the olive oil, and why we think it is a better way to keep great olive oil in daily use.
How to Choose Olive Oil for Salad Dressing and Drizzling
A good olive oil salad dressing does more than help a vinaigrette come together. It shapes the whole dish. When the olive oil is fresh, balanced, and chosen for the right job, a salad feels brighter, crisp, and flavorful. The same is true when you drizzle olive oil over vegetables, beans, fish, or warm bread right before serving. The bottle you choose becomes part of the final flavor, not just a background ingredient.
How to Taste Olive Oil Like A Pro
Tasting olive oil on its own can give the taster a unique experience of the oil’s dynamic flavor components before it is blended with other ingredients to create a delicious meal.
Professional tasters measure three attributes in olive oil: fruitiness, bitterness, and pungency. Within those three categories, however, there are many more subtle flavors. Green and tropical fruits, green tea, fresh-cut grass, or even artichoke are just a few of the flavors that you might experience. To fully abso...
What You Need To Know About Olive Oil Cocktails
Adding olive oil to cocktails is more popular than you might imagine. From the polished bars of Michelin-starred restaurants to the kitchen tables of the home chef, adding a high-quality olive oil to your evening drink is an increasingly popular choice.
Drinking Olive Oil Benefits: What You Need to Know
Discover the many health benefits of drinking Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO). Packed with antioxidants and healthy fats, learn how it can enhance your well-being.
Best Container for Olive Oil: Tin, Glass, Ceramic, or Dispenser?
The best container for olive oil is an opaque one that protects it from light and air while fitting the way you actually cook. A tin gives the most complete light protection and is lightweight and difficult to break; a dark glass bottle is nice for a premium feel and served at the table; a ceramic cruet or a stainless steel olive oil dispenser works well if you refill and clean it often; and clear glass protects the olive oil the least.
Olive Oil Skincare: DIY Scrubs vs. Professional ODE Products
Olive oil skincare sits at the intersection of tradition and modern self-care. From homemade scrubs mixed at the kitchen counter to professionally formulated body oils and lotions, olive oil shows up everywhere in skin care. In this guide, we’ll compare DIY olive oil skincare with professionally crafted ODE products—what each does well, where DIY can fall short, and how to choose what actually supports skin health without overcomplicating your routine.
Best Olive Oil for Bread Dipping: What Makes a Great Bottle for the Table
The best olive oil for bread dipping should make a simple plate of bread feel like the beginning of something worth lingering over. When the bottle is right, a small pour of olive oil becomes more than a quick dip. It becomes aroma, texture, peppery lift, and just enough richness to make the table feel generous before dinner has fully begun.
Why Olive Oil Storage Matters: Light, Heat, Air, and the Case for the Tin
Olive oil is perishable. Unlike wine, it does not improve with age; it is a fresh ingredient, closer in spirit to juice from fruit than to a shelf-stable pantry item you can keep indefinitely. From the moment it is bottled or tinned, its flavor begins a slow decline shaped by how you store it. The good news is that olive oil storage is almost entirely within your control, and a few simple habits keep good olive oil tasting the way it should.
Olive Oil for Skin Benefits: Mediterranean Wellness Inside & Out (Without the Hype)
The best olive oil for skin benefits aren’t about miracle claims—they’re about barrier comfort, everyday softness, and simple rituals you’ll actually repeat.
In this guide, we’ll break down how olive oil fits into skincare and hair care in a practical, Mediterranean-inspired way: what olive oil can (and can’t) do,
how to use olive oil without feeling greasy, and which textures work best for different skin types—plus a few McEvoy Ranch favorites to make it easy.
Olive Oil Hair Mask: DIY Hair Masks, Deep Conditioning, and How to Use Them
An olive oil hair mask is one of the simplest ways to bring a little deep conditioning into your week—without turning hair care into a complicated project. In this guide, you’ll learn when an oil mask actually helps (and when it backfires), how to customize DIY recipes for different hair types, and how to rinse cleanly so your hair feels soft—not coated.
Can You Drink Olive Oil? Everything You Need to Know About Its Benefits
Explore the health benefits of drinking extra virgin olive oil, what research says about heart health, and how to add it to your routine.
Olive Oil Packaging, Explained: What the Bottle or Tin Tells You Before You Taste
Olive oil packaging is part presentation, part preservation, and part information. Learn to read a package and you can judge a bottle or tin's likely quality from the shelf, then store it well once it is home. Extra virgin olive oil is a delicate, perishable liquid, susceptible to light and oxygen, so the package has a real job: protect the olive oil and tell you what is inside before you ever taste.
Host & Hostess Gift Ideas: Why Olive Oil Gift Sets Make the Perfect Holiday Present
Tired of showing up with the same bottle of wine every year? An olive oil gift set is a delicious, wellness-minded holiday food gift your hosts will actually use long after the party is over. In this guide, we’ll walk through why premium olive oil and balsamic vinegar gift sets make such thoughtful and unique gifts, how to choose the right gift box for every type of host, and which McEvoy Ranch collections are perfect when you want to make a memorable impression.
Corporate Gifting with Olive Oil: A Unique Way to Say Thank You This Holiday Season
Skip the fleece blanket your client already has in triplicate. This year, olive oil corporate gifts and balsamic vinegar gift sets let you send something delicious, healthy, and memorable — without adding more clutter to anyone’s desk. In this guide, we’ll walk through how to build beautifully packaged artisan food gift boxes, how to match each recipient with the right olive oil gift sets, and how McEvoy Ranch can help you ship everywhere on your list with ease.
Can You Fry with Extra Virgin Olive Oil? Here's What You Need to Know
Discover the truth about frying with extra virgin olive oil. Learn its versatility for cooking, despite common myths about olive oil and smoke points!
Olive Fruit Fly Defense
If you're a fellow olive grower, you're probably well aware that olive fruit flies (OLFF) create tremendous pressure on California olives. If you're not familiar with these pesky little flies, they've been plaguing the olive industry since the 3rd century BC. First identified in Los Angeles in 1998, they've spread to most of California and become the number one enemy of our beloved Tuscan olive trees.
OPTIMUM CLIMATE AND OLIVE VARIETIES
Olive trees require a Mediterranean-like climate to survive. They need a long, hot summer and a cool, not frigid, winter. A mature tree can survive temperatures down to 15 degrees Fahrenheit for a limited amount of time; sustained cold below 15 degrees can be fatal. There are olive trees that survive outside of the typical Mediterranean zone but generally they do not produce economically viable crop levels.
Our Desire to Educate & Innovate
At McEvoy Ranch, we are constantly dreaming up new, flavorful ideas. Our Signature Olive Oil Collection materializes our desire to educate and innovate, bringing together distinctive ingredients from multiple food cultures. These olive oils were selected because they cannot be found elsewhere, creating a unique sensory experience exclusive to McEvoy Ranch.
Carbon Farming at McEvoy Ranch
As a certified organic farm, McEvoy Ranch has long made soil quality, and particularly organic matter, the center piece of its farm fertility program. The importance of this approach to farming is coming increasingly into focus with the growing awareness of the highly beneficial role agriculture can play in stopping and reversing the worsening climate destabilization crisis.
OUR FARMING PRACTICES
Working from the soil up, a balanced agricultural eco-system is the beginning. Organic farming is the baseline. We strive to create a self-sufficient and balanced agricultural ecosystem, embracing diverse plant and animal populations.
Gourmet Gifts & Food Gift Baskets | Gourmet Food Gift Ideas
Some gifts nourish; others impress — but the truly unforgettable ones do both. Our most-loved foodie gift sets and wellness-forward self-care boxes pair California flavor with handcrafted beauty, offering a taste of the elegant, slow-made world of McEvoy Ranch. Here’s your curated guide to gifts that feel intimate, elevated, and effortlessly memorable.
HEALTHY LIVING WITH MCEVOY RANCH
McEvoy Ranch Healthy Lifestyle 360º:These 5 Pillars make up our 360º approach to a healthy and balanced lifestyle. They inform why we have the products and experiences we do, and how we believe our business should operate too.
OUR WINE
Our wine reflects progressive techniques tempered by respect for time-honored traditions. Talk of winemaking began around our kitchen table during casual lunches. To our good fortune, the Ranch’s rolling hills and ideal location have proved as welcoming to grapes as they are to olives.