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Organic First-Harvest Olive Oil

By Sakellaropoulos

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Why It Earned Gold Label

  • Fyllikon First Harvest — the season's earliest, unripe olives, cold-extracted at 16–20°C.
  • Certified organic by Bio-Hellas, continuously since 1992.
  • NMR-verified high-phenolic oil carrying the EU health claim.
  • From Sakellaropoulos Organic Farms — ranked the world's No.1 producer, ~1,150 international awards.
  • Included in a Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Mediterranean-diet trial.
  • Glass-bottled; very low acidity.
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Our Evaluation

Why We Chose Sakellaropoulos Olive Oil

Sakellaropoulos Organic Farms is, by the numbers, the most decorated organic olive-oil producer on earth — ranked the world's No.1 in the independent EVOO World Ranking and holder of roughly 1,150 international awards, with a certified-organic record stretching unbroken to 1992. The Fyllikon First Harvest is their earliest, greenest pressing, and it is the pick that best matches our early-harvest standard.

The oil is made from the first unripe olives of the season, cold-extracted at a gentle 16–20°C to protect the phenolics, and verified by NMR — the most accurate quantitative method — as a high-phenolic oil carrying the EU health claim. Their oils routinely test many times over the 250 mg/kg health-claim threshold. It is certified organic by Bio-Hellas and bottled in glass.

Credibility beyond marketing: the farm's high-phenolic oil was selected for a Mediterranean-diet intervention trial run by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The standard caveat applies — no independent heavy-metal panel is published for this specific oil — which we flag rather than assume.

Per Sakellaropoulos Organic Farms

  • Fyllikon First Harvest: earliest, unripe olives, cold-extracted at 16–20°C; NMR-verified high-phenolic with the EU health claim.
  • Certified organic by Bio-Hellas continuously since 1992; ranked No.1 in the EVOO World Ranking; ~1,150 international awards.
  • Selected for a Mediterranean-diet trial by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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Transparency Flags

  • No independent heavy-metal, pesticide, or phthalate panel exists for this specific oil.
  • Polyphenol figures are NMR values and are not directly comparable to HPLC numbers from other brands.

Bonham Gold Label Evaluation

Purity Profile

Ingredients & Additives 5/5
Pure olive juice — cold-extracted, nothing added.
Naturalness & Purity 5/5
First-harvest, unripe olives, gently cold-extracted at 16–20°C.
Pesticides 4/5
Certified organic by Bio-Hellas since 1992; no separate residue COA.
Heavy Metals Not tested
No independent heavy-metal testing exists for this oil.
Third-Party Verification 5/5
NMR-verified high-phenolic; EU health claim; ~1,150 awards; No.1 ranking.
Transparency 5/5
Publishes detailed analyses; named farm; harvest-dated; in a Harvard trial.
Polyphenols 5/5
Verified high-phenolic, many times over the EU health-claim threshold.

Contaminant Status

What We Know About This Product

A transparent breakdown of each contaminant category for this product.

Heavy Metals
Not independently tested for this specific oil. Scored zero — unknown, not a clean result.
Pesticides & Glyphosate
Certified organic by Bio-Hellas since 1992, prohibiting synthetic pesticides; no separate residue COA is published.
GMO
Organic certification prohibits GMOs; no GMO olive exists commercially.
Authenticity & Adulteration
Phenolic content verified by NMR — the most accurate quantitative method — confirming a genuine high-phenolic oil.

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