Congratulations are in order again, as our Organics extra virgin olive oil has won the extra gold medal at the 25th Italian BIOL Prize, placing it among the best organic extra virgin olive oils.
Organized by the Italian Biological Consortium, the BIOL International Prize is the largest international competition for organic extra virgin olive oils. The 2020 edition included participation by oils from five continents.
Goya Organics is a perfect coupage of the Picual, Hojiblanca and Picuda varieties. With an intense, fruity green aroma and notes of grass and green leaves, hints of tomato, apple, green almond and artichokes, it is perfect for using in vegetarian or vegan dishes due to its sensory and health properties.
The quality of the Goya premium extra virgin olive oils has been recognized in the International Quality Competition for extra virgin olive oils (Evooleum Guide Awards 2020).
This international guide held the 5th edition of the Evooleum International Quality Awards for Extra Virgin Olive Oil, promoted by the Mercacei magazine and the Spanish Association of Olive Growing Municipalities (AEMO).
On this occasion, Goya Organics extra virgin olive oil earned a score of 90 points, while Goya Único earned a total of 88 points, both oils ranking in the Top 100 best extra virgin olive oils at a global level.
This award from Evooleum is an international endorsement of Goya’s constant work on offering the best premium extra virgin olive oils to the most demanding consumers.
As in the 2019 edition, the Olive Oil School of Spain (ESAO), awarded Goya extra virgin olive oils in 2020.
In the “Best International Extra Virgin Olive Oil” category, Goya Organics extra virgin olive won second prize, retaining the position it earned in 2019.
Additionally, in the “Best National Extra Virgin Olive Oil of Andalusia” category, Organics also won second prize, while the Goya Único and Robusto extra virgin olive oils reached sixth and ninth place, respectively.
For another year, the ESAO awards recognize the work of the olive oil producers and cooperatives to offer the highest quality oil. The award ceremony will take place on the 12th of June in Valencia.
As in the 2019 edition the Iberoleum Guide once again ranked Goya gourmet extra virgin olive oils among the best in Spain, awarding Goya Único 96 points, as best national extra virgin coupage. Read more
Last February, the Goya Spain factory in Alcalá de Guadaíra (Seville), participated in the special informative supplement about extra virgin olive oil published in ABC newspaper, “Andalucía tierra de oro verde”.
Here you can see the report and the publicity about our factory in the ABC special.
Last February Goya España factory in Alcalá de Guadaíra (Seville) hosted the 1st Goya Europa Commercial Convention 2020. Read more
The quality of Goya extra virgin olive oils continues to win awards in the USA. Read more
The Unicode Consortium, the organization in charge of standardizing the characters used on the majority of software worldwide, has published the list of the new emojis which will be available on mobile devices from March, among which the table olive finally appears.
In the set of foods, users will have 8 new emojis, notable among which is the table olive, responding to the request from Spain, one of the main commercial drivers of its production and export.
With regard to its visual appearance, the Unicode Consortium has worked with different suggestions – a pitted olive, a pepper-filled olive, or an olive on a branch with a leaf – although it has not yet agreed the final design.
Version 13.0 has a total of 117 new icons added to those existing on WhatsApp, Android, iOS and Twitter: a total of 62 new original images and 55 variations of gender and skin color of these and other existing emojis.
On the 29th of January, Goya Spain factory in Seville received the visit from four members of the South Korean national artistic Taekwondo team, coinciding with the exhibition tour they are carrying out in different Spanish provinces.
During the visit, athletes Shin Huichan, Lee Soyeon, Cho Dayoung and You Soobean were able to discover every detail of the olive and olive oil production processes for themselves.
After the visit to the factory, the athletes visited the Sevillian municipality of Coripe where the first of the exhibitions took place.
As is becoming a regular occurrence, Goya Gourmet Oils have featured prominently at the Madrid Fusión Trade Fair. In the 2020 edition, Único and Organics extra virgin olive oils were used in the recipes prepared by the executive chef of Goya Foods, Fernando Desa, during the Showcooking “Unanue: the cuisine of yesterday and today”.
Desa took a trip through the history of the Unanue family with four preparations: grilled scallop served with different shoots: a Caribbean dish of ripe bananas, picadillo, egg and a ajilimójili sauce; crispy ceviche with passion fruit; and a taco filled with pig tripe, cabbage and guacamole salad and jalapeño and agave sauce.
Along with the preparation of the dishes, the Goya Food stand at Madrid Fusión held different extra virgin olive oil tastings, allowing attendees of this gastronomic trade fair to discover the quality of the Goya premium extra virgin oils for themselves.
