In the production of Goya Olive Oil, traditional methods go hand in hand with technological advances in packaging and bottling.

This is the recipe we’ve been applying for half a century at our factory in Seville.

At Goya, we package and bring to your table the best Extra Virgin Olive Oil made from 100% Spanish olives. Our Extra Virgin Olive Oils have won 238 awards at international contests across the five continents.

Find out more about the awards our oils have won.

The olive groves of Andalusia hold the essence and origin of our olive oils. Today we have a little history for you, as we look back at the origins of olive cultivation in Spain.

The olive has long been the tree most venerated by the peoples of the Mediterranean. Olive branches were used to crown the winners of sporting competitions and wars while it was also a symbol of peace, fame and wealth.

In Spain, the olive has its roots in the domination of the Mare Nostrum by the Phoenicians and the Greeks. By the 1st century BC, olive groves already occupied a large strip of southern Spain (Andalusia) and extended through the center of the peninsula and along Spain’s Mediterranean coast and into Portugal.

During the Roman Empire, the olive oil trade in Hispania extended across the western world. We know this from the remains of amphorae with the Bética mark used to transport oil on the great rivers of Europe like the Rhône, Rhine and Danube.

With the Arab invasion, the new settlers planted their own varieties of olive across the south of Spain, allowing them to increase the cultivated area and contributing to the Spanish language the words aceituna (olive) and aceite (oil). It is at this stage in the history of the olive, when in Al Andalus olive growing acquires more importance on the Iberian Peninsula than in other, traditional olive growing areas of the Mediterranean.

By the 15th century, the olive had reached America and extended through areas of Mexico, Peru, Chile, Argentina and Mexico.

Source: The history of oil and the growing of olive tree

Do you know what the purpose of the mill is? The almazaras or olive oil mills are located close to the olive groves, and this is where growers work to produce the best mono-variety oil. Once they obtain high quality extra virgin olive oils at the mill, they present small batches to international contests. The more international prizes they win, the higher the price the mill can obtain from their oils from packagers. 

Once the packagers acquire these oils, they oversee the filtration, balancing and blending in coupages for packing and bringing to market. Traditionally, packagers are the ones responsible for exporting olive oil overseas. 

Goya España packages olive oils produced using different varieties of olives grown in the south of Spain, specifically in the Subbética county, home to the most prized olive groves and mills in the world. 

The company packages and markets 100% Spanish olive oils of exceptional quality and incomparable flavor and is recognized by the leading olive oil rankings as one of the Top 2 oil companies (World´s Best Olive Oil 2021) and among the top 5 most awarded olive oil companies in the world (WREVOO 2021).  

Today, we package five different extra virgin olive oils (GOYA® Organics, Único, Robusto, Extra Virgin and Garlic) and two olive oils (GOYA® Puro and Light Flavor).  

Discover the flavor of tradition, discover Goya oils. Quality and tradition on your table.  

Olives, along with Extra Virgin Olive Oil, form part of the basic foodstuff of the Mediterranean Diet, recognized by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

Olives unite the four basic flavors (sweet, salty, bitter, and sour), and can therefore be used in a great range of recipes and dishes, from appetizers and salads, to pizza, pasta, fish, and meat.

With regard to their consumption, experts in nutrition from SEDCA (Spanish Society of Dietetics and Food Science) recommend include olives eating 25 grams a day, which is about 7 olives.

And olives have important properties to look after our body. Do you know what they are?

The benefits of olives

1. As noted by Interaceituna, olives have cardiovascular benefits and reduce LDL (‘bad’) cholesterol and increase HDL (‘good’) cholesterol thanks to their oleic acid and strong presence of oleate (monounsaturated fatty acid).
2. They are rich sodium and in vitamins A and E, one of the most important as it protects us from oxidative damage to cells.
3. They improve digestive transit due to their fiber content.
4. Olives are a source of iron. Black olives, specifically, contain up to 45.5% of the recommended daily iron intake.
5.  They contain calcium to look after bones.

At Goya Spain we offer a wide range of preparations of our olives (from table olives, black olives, and specially stuffed, to our range of reduced sodium olives and capers), to bring healthy flavor to you dishes. What are you waiting for?

Discover Goya olives. Taste and Tradition at your table.

Storing olive oil in summer so that it retains all its properties is easy, but not everyone does it correctly. Today we share with you a serie of tips from Almazaras de la Subbética to make sure your Extra Virgin Olive Oil retains all its benefits.

• Store extra virgin olive oil in a cool, dry place with a more or less constant temperature of around 18 to 20 degrees.
• It is very important to ensure that the oil is not exposed to direct sunlight so store bottles of oil in a dark place or somewhere with little light.
• The bottle should be firmly closed after each use, to prevent any risk of oxidation.

If we don’t follow these small steps when storing olive oil, our EVOO can deteriorate and start to lose its properties, its color and its texture and turn rancid.

The history of Goya Spain is intertwined with Frank Calvo, our Frank, who after an extensive professional career in Brooklyn and Manhattan, didn’t hesitate to remain connected to GOYA® from our factory in Sevilla.

Always a friendly face, Frank was a GOYA® Ambassador in Spain, transmitting the values of his family, the Great GOYA® Family, to all.

Last December Frank Calvo was a special guest at our traditional awards ceremonies for staff of Goya Spain, where he was presented with a tribute for his 60 years of sevice to the company, along with his wife, colleagues and the Unanue family.

𝐓𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐰𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐛𝐲𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐬𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐞.

𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒌𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝑭𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒌! (10/07/2022)

Alimarket news portal has published the agreement signed by Goya Spain with the agri-food company Henstenberg and takes balance of the activity of our factory in the last year. Read more

Without a doubt, the best way to start the day is with a healthy breakfast. What’s more, as the nutritionist Aitor Sánchez of the of Olive Oils from Spain Aprende a comer sano (learn to eat healthily) program highlights, breakfast is “an opportunity to instill good eating habits in the family”.

When it comes to what we can eat for breakfast, Aprende a comer sano offers us some options which we can build into our daily lives. Among them:

• Bowl of yoghurt with chopped fruit.
• Homemade fruit smoothies from fruit such as bananas or milkshakes based on yoghurt.
• Chia pudding to which cocoa or red fruits low in sugar can be added.

And, using the Mediterranean Diet as a base, we could have whole wheat bread with Extra Virgin Olive Oil for healthy breakfast, to which we could add a source of protein such as tuna or egg.

Aprende a comer sano (Learn to Eat Healthily) is a program developed by Olive Oils from Spain and Compass Group with the aim teaching people of all ages and the whole family how to feed themselves well every day, with olive oil as a key ingredient.

For the fifth year in a row, GOYA® extra virgin olive oils captivated the jury at the New York International Olive Oil Competition (NYIOOC) 2022.

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Goya Spain has signed a collaboration agreement with the agri-food company Henstenberg for the exclusive distribution of its extra virgin olive oils and table olives from next summer.  Read more