Find out the difference between regular olive oil, extra virgin and other varieties<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The echo of 2020 will reverberate through many years to come. In a year that many consider a black swan event to have occurred, the local olive oil industry stayed steady in its pursuit of delivering a world-class product from a bumper crop. The pinnacle of this collective achievement is receiving an Absa Top 10 trophy. BLIND TASTED BY A PANEL OF EXPERTS Receiving an Absa Top 10 trophy is no mean feat, as 104 extra virgin olive oils (EVOOs) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"acf":[],"brand_slug":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80869"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80878,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80869\/revisions\/80878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Absa has supported the industry since 2013 by recognising the excellence of our local EVOOs and the dedication of its producers. Congratulating the finalists and winners, John Tshabalala, Absa\u2019s Head of Relationship Banking Western Cape, spoke about the local and global socio-economic pressures we are experiencing and that it demands a long-term view of how Absa maintains and develops excellence. He said that \u2018as a growing industry, the olive producers play a critical role in job creation and significantly contribute to the growth of the South African economy every year.\u2019 He also reiterated Absa\u2019s commitment to do more in supporting the industry, so that everyone in the sector can say \u2018I can overcome and thrive\u2019.<\/p>\n