Why Choose Speciality Oils From Fustini's

Fustini’s specialty flavor-infused oils add something special to every meal. When you cook with our wide variety of infused extra virgin olive oils and SELECT oils, you experience fresh and quality ingredients.

What Makes Fustini's Olive Oils So Unique?

Here at Fustini's Oils & Vinegars, we get together with our partner farms to ensure the highest quality olive oil during the harvest, milling, and bottling of the products we select. We take our promise of providing customers premium oil even further with the help of olive oil expert and judge Dr. Paul Vossen through professional tasting and testing at the molecular level.

How Are Fustini's Premium Oils Made?

As our olives ripen during the summer months, they begin to mature and soften and turn from a deep green color to more of a greenish-straw color. This is the perfect time to harvest in order to produce premium quality oils that have the most flavor and polyphenol content. Fustini's SELECT olive oil is produced during the early harvest timeline. While this reduces the yield of oil produced, the quality is the finest available.

Our olives are quickly harvested and immediately crushed within hours of being picked. It is tested for quality at an olive oil laboratory and is ready to be shipped and bottled for immediate consumption. To create uniquely flavorful olive oils, Fustini’s engages in a specific flavoring process. Our oils are infused with essential oils, natural flavoring, and a variety of different ingredients – cilantro and onion, lemon, and rosemary to name a few – to create a delicious final product.

Why Buy Specialty Flavored Oils?

Our unique selection of gourmet oils provides an elevated taste to any dish. With a wide variety of flavors to choose from, Fustini’s oil products have the ability to complement existing notes of flavor or add an entirely new element to your meal. Take note of how to properly cook with Fustini’s oils and vinegars with our expert techniques.

Why Cook With Flavor-Infused Olive Oils?

Fustini's infused extra virgin olive oils transform each meal into an unforgettable experience. Our products encourage you to incorporate new ingredients and flavor pairings to create something new. Discover our wide variety of recipes to learn how our oils are best used.

Fustini's Oil Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

What is Extra Virgin Olive Oil?

The “extra" in extra virgin olive oil represents the absolute highest grade for olive oil—the best you can buy. Virgin oil is classified "extra" when it has less than .8% free oleic acid.

How Do You Store Olive Oil?

Olive oil should be stored in a cool, dark place. Well-controlled pantry conditions are recommended. Light and heat are two of the primary enemies of olive oil. Packaging in dark glass is also important to shield olive oil from UV rays and light. Do not refrigerate.

How Long Does Olive Oil Stay Good?

Another enemy of olive oil is “time.” Freshness provides a key taste attribute. Our extra virgin olive oils are pressed when the olives are very green and contain high amounts of antioxidants. They are still very stable and hold most of their positive attributes, which extend the shelf life longer than most other brands of olive oil. To experience the highest nutritional value and freshness, our best-by date is 24 months after harvest.

What Are the Health Benefits of EVOO?

Extra virgin olive oil is an important source of antioxidants. The most important are polyphenols, antioxidants, and tocopherols (vitamin E). The higher the polyphenols, the better, such as in our Robust SELECT extra virgin olive oil. There are as many as 5.5 mg of polyphenols antioxidant in every tablespoon of olive oil (15 ml) and 1.6 mg of Vitamin E per tablespoon of olive oil. Total proximate of antioxidants: 7 mg in every 15 ml of olive oil.

The US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) of antioxidants (vitamins, minerals, polyphenols, etc.) for a 25-year-old male for antioxidants is 120 mg/day. That means that extra virgin olive oil could be 12 % of the daily source of antioxidants in your diet if you just use two tablespoons of it in your salads. And it could be almost 30% if you drizzled it over fish/meat or roast vegetables or used it for bread dipping.

How Can I Cook With EVOO?

We're all about equipping you to enjoy healthy and flavorful food—with the help of our products! Olive oil is suitable for sautés, sauces, marinades, and vinaigrettes, in addition to being a fine finishing oil or simply enjoyed with a baguette. While fresh olive oil has a smoke point above 400 degrees F, we do not recommend leaving any sauté pan alone.

Why is Olive Oil Superior to Other Oils?

Taste is the most obvious difference between olive oil and store-bought vegetable oils. Vegetable oils are basically tasteless, solvent extracted, and merely add fats without adding taste. Extra virgin olive oil adds a specific fresh flavor all its own, making it a great replacement for butter and margarine in almost any situation. Extra virgin olive oil, plain or flavored, is becoming very popular as a dipping or topping for bread, as an addition to recipes in place of butter, and as a component of marinades and salad dressings.

Vegetable oils are usually extracted using petroleum-based chemical solvents and then must be highly refined to remove impurities. Along with the impurities, refining removes taste, color, and nutrients. Extra virgin olive oils are not processed or refined. Extra virgin olive oil is fresh-pressed juice from the fruit of the olive tree, leaving the color, taste, vitamins, and nutrients intact. Because of its antioxidant components, olive oil keeps itself from oxidizing, so it stays fresh longer than vegetable oils.

Can I Replace Butter and Margarine With Olive Oil?

Yes! Use it on vegetables, rice, potatoes, baking, toast, and just about anything! As a general rule of thumb, substitute three-quarters of the butter in a recipe with olive oil. For example, if a recipe calls for 1 cup of butter, use ¾ cup of olive oil.

What Do I Do if I Receive Frozen Olive Oils?

If you receive olive oils that have frozen, don't worry. Exposure to cold temperatures won't damage the olive oil. Just set the bottles on the counter at room temperature for 1 to 2 hours. Exposure to cold temperatures will not damage the olive oil.

Do You Offer Organic Olive Oil?

Since our olive oils are milled at different times of the year, it is best to check with your favorite Fustini's store location or check the individual product listings on the website. We find that many of our small artisanal producers located outside of the U.S. do not have the resources to complete the USDA Certified Organic process (with the largest issue being even if they do not use pesticides, any estate within 8 miles that do use pesticides would not qualify as USDA Certified Organic).

Most growers also use a small amount of pesticide to combat the olive fly early in the olive's development. Without this, crops and whole orchards can be destroyed. Our artisan growers rely on seasonal rain to wash away any residue before harvest. We also rely heavily on the chemical profile of each olive oil crush to verify there is no pesticide residue remaining on the olive at the time of milling.