What is Pomace Olive Oil?
Pomace olive oil is an organic olive oil derived from pomace, or olive cake — the ground olive fruit pulp left over from first pressing extra virgin olive oil and then pressing virgin olive oil. To extract pomace olive oil, the pomace is pressed further or is treated with hexane or some petroleum solvent. The resultant oil contains many impurities and may undergo several heating and filtering processes to refine it to an acceptable standard. It is then blended with virgin olive oil before it is made available to consumers.
