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Food Plus Award to Orkide and Hakbay

Within the scope of the Food Plus & Food Adders Awards, the “Q Oil Fatty Acid” product was deemed worthy of an award in the “Most Innovative Food Waste Reduction Product/Initiative” category.

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The 3rd Food Innovation Summit and Food Plus & Food Adders Award Ceremony organized by the Food, Beverage and Agricultural Policy Research Center (GIFT) was held at the Boğaziçi University Culture Center. GIFT, which set out to discuss innovation in food and bring together value-added product brands, awarded the “most innovative” products in 3 different categories at the 35rd Food Plus Awards Ceremony. The award-winning products were determined by a jury of 74 people consisting of sector officials, academics, health professionals, sectoral associations and members of the press working in different areas of the food sector.

Within the scope of the 3rd Food Plus & Food Plus Awards “Most Innovative Food Waste Reduction Product/Initiative” In the category, the product “Q Oil Fatty Acid”, which is produced by processing waste oils containing +50% water resulting from the refining of raw vegetable oil in Orkide’s zero waste licensed production facilities with the latest technology system and making it valuable, was deemed worthy of the award at Hakbay, another zero waste licensed group company. The award was presented to Hakbay Production Facility Manager Birol Cavaş by GIFT Secretary General İrem Yakışıklı.

It was emphasized that “Q Oil Fatty Acid”, obtained by recycling waste vegetable oils, contributes to environmental sustainability, provides a resource for energy production in bioenergy facilities, and offers a value-added product to industries such as chemicals, feed, etc.

Source: HORECA TREND and Orchid

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Nizolive Brings the Flavor of Nature to Your Table

Nizolive adds flavor to tables with its high polyphenol olive oils. Nizolive, which preserves its polyphenol content at the highest level with its olive oils produced with early harvest and cold pressing technology, contributes to the support of the immune system. Offering a delicious and reliable option for consumers, Nizolive brings together quality and naturalness in olive oil.

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Conscious consumers no longer only care about taste, but also production conditions, environmental impacts and health benefits of the products they will buy. Bringing together traditional agricultural knowledge and modern quality management, Nizolive adds flavor to tables with its internationally valid certificates, environmentally friendly production system and high polyphenol content.

Adds a Healthy Touch to Every Meal

In addition to extending shelf life, polyphenols protect heart health, reduce inflammation, and strengthen immunity. Nizolive, which produces with the early harvest – cold pressing technology it has specially developed to preserve these natural antioxidants in olive oil at maximum levels, takes care to preserve the high polyphenol content in its olive oils. Nizolive olive oils, which are tested and confirmed by professional panels with sensory analyses, add a flavorful touch to salads, appetizers, and meals with all these features.

Olive Pulp is Turned into Natural Fertilizer

With its ISO 9001 certificate, Nizolive guarantees product quality stability and customer satisfaction, with its ISO 22000 certificate, it eliminates food safety risks, and with its ISO 14001 certificate, it ensures the protection of natural resources by adopting environmentally sensitive production policies. By reducing water and energy consumption and using solar-powered waste management systems, Nizolive minimizes its environmental impact. It also contributes to cyclical agriculture by converting olive pulp into natural fertilizer.

Source: HORECA TREND and Nizolive

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10 out of 9 people who tried it recommend Orkide Natural Extra Virgin Olive Oil!

According to the results of the Consumer Feedback Survey conducted on the Denebunu.com platform, 10 out of 9 people recommend Orkide Natural Extra Virgin Olive Oil!

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Consumer experience and insight platform Denebunu offers consumers' experiences Orchid Natural Extra Virgin Olive Oil a denebunu.com platform, a Consumer Feedback Survey was conducted with the participation of 26 people between the ages of 2024-9 between December 2025, 18 and March 61, 1193. According to the research on which the results of this survey were based, 10 out of 9 people who tried the product recommended Orkide Natural Extra Virgin Olive Oil. According to the same research, the consumer satisfaction rate was determined as 97 percent.

Produced in Orkide's olive oil factory in Çiğli, İzmir, Orkide Natural Extra Virgin Olive Oil is offered to consumers in cold-pressed and flavored varieties, as well as fruity characteristics and flavor variations (dense, ripe, balanced, soft) according to the values ​​of natural extra virgin olive oil, in line with the sensory tests and analyses conducted by expert olive oil analysts.

Source: HORECA TREND and Orchid

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EU Project to Increase Productivity in the Olive and Olive Oil Sector

In the olive and olive oil sector; it is aimed for 50 olive and olive oil producing companies from Turkey to participate in the “Innovative and Sustainable Clustering in the Olive Value Chain (OASIS) Project”, which aims to increase productivity with innovative approaches in table olive and olive oil businesses with pressing units, supported by the European Union and in which Turkey, Spain and Italy are stakeholders.

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Providing information about the goals of the OASIS Project, Aegean Olive and Olive Oil Exporters' Association President Emre Uygun underlined that the main goal is to train SMEs operating in the olive and olive oil production sector in the Aegean Basin on sustainable practices, support technologies that will increase raw material efficiency, and develop strategies that will create resilience against climate change and external factors.

A competitive marketplace will be created

Uygun, who informed that Turkey ranked first in the world with a yield of 2024 thousand tons in table olive production in the 25/750 season, and second in the world after Spain with a yield of 475 thousand tons in olive oil, said, “With the OASIS Project, it is aimed to strengthen the food supply chain, reduce production costs and create a competitive marketplace for both businesses and consumers by focusing on reducing food waste and optimizing resource use throughout the production process of businesses with pressing facilities in the table olive and olive oil sector. We invite our olive and olive oil businesses with table olive processing and olive oil pressing units to take part in this project.”

In the “Innovative and Sustainable Clustering in the Olive Value Chain (OASIS) Project”, companies sUygun, who stated that a sustainability assessment will be conducted and current resource efficiencies will be analyzed, continued as follows: “Free training and consultancy services will be provided to support them in making their production processes more efficient according to the current situation analysis. Training topics will include topics such as circular production, resource efficiency, digital transformation, green transformation, smart agricultural technologies. SMEs with good practice examples will be determined and their promotion and awareness will be provided throughout the EU. Matching activities will be carried out between SMEs and institutions participating from Italy, Spain and Turkey. The project target group consists of a total of 50 SMEs operating in the table olive and olive oil production sector, 150 SMEs from each country. Activities to be carried out for the target group within the scope of the project include researching 10 previously implemented and completed good practice examples and presenting them to SMEs as a sample roadmap, organizing 150 different trainings on various themes for 25 SMEs, determining the measures to be taken to prevent food waste and increase efficient resource use, ensuring the adaptation of the use of new technologies and creating a more competitive and resilient market environment that will reduce production and shipment costs by developing new strategies in this field.”

“Innovative and Sustainable Clusters in the Olive Value Chain”, which was awarded support by the European Innovation Council and the SME Executive Agency (EISMEA) under the Single Market Programme (SMP COSME) (OASIS) The project is carried out in collaboration with the consortium of İzmir Agricultural Technology Center (İTTM) under the coordination of İzmir Commodity Exchange from Turkey, Centro Tecnológico Nacional de la Conserva – CTNC (National Food and Canning Technology Center) and Camara De Comercio e Industria Italiana Para Espana – CCIS (Italian Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Spain) from Spain, CIHAEM Bari (Mediterranean Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Bari) and Unioncamere Puglia (Union of Chambers of the Puglia Region) from Italy.

Source: HORECA TREND and Aegean Exporters' Associations

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