Let Food be medicine and let medicine be food"                                Hippocrates (460-370 B.C.)

    "Let food be your medicine''               

  The Nobel Prize-winning (1963) Greek poet Georgios Seferis says: The Greece  consists of three parts: Olive groves, Vineyards and Sea. Part of this Greece is  olive oil, which has been known since the time of Homer and carries a history of more than five thousand years as a food and as a medicine to. All ancient Greek physicians such as Hippocrates, Dioscorides, Gallinus, Asclipius and others prescribed olive oil for diseases of the heart, the digestive system, for the healing of wounds, and others.

European Regulation 432/2012

 This centuries-long tradition was confirmed in the most solemn manner by contemporary European physicians. The European Union issued European Regulation 432/2012 which recognizes and transfers olive oil from food to medicine. The health claim of the Europian Regulation is: <<The phenols of olive oil contribute to the protection of blood lipids from oxidative stress>>.We have this result if we consume daily 20 ml of olive oil which contains over 250 mg of phenols in one kilogram.

The Phenolic Extra Virgin Olive Oil KION contains over 500 mg of phenols per kilogram

Other EUROPEIAN and FDA of USA  RECOMMENDATIONS     

 The second health claim of the 432/2012 regulation claims that: << replacing saturated fats with unsaturated fats in the diet helps maintain normal blood cholesterol levels >>. Olive oil contains           87% oleic acid which belongs to unsaturated fats.

We strongly believe that a large number of people (whose cholesterol troubles their hearts) would like to consume a food that is also a medicine.

(With the formulation Phenolic Extra Virgin Olive Oil, the European regulation defines olive oil whose concentration of phenols (hydroxytyrosol and derivatives) is equal to or greater than 250 mg per kilogram).

The US Food and Drug Administration (F.D.A.) also agreed with the above European Regulation. So it issued its own Strong Health Recommendation for American citizens on November 19, 2018. "Scientific evidence shows that consuming about 2 tablespoons (20 grams) of olive oil daily may reduce the risk of coronary heart disease due to the monounsaturated fat in olive oil. To achieve this potential benefit, olive oil should replace a similar amount of saturated fat and not increase the total number of calories you consume in a day>>.