Olive oil is the fat extracted from olives, fruits of the olive tree, a characteristic tree of both the climate and the regions around the Mediterranean.

There are different types of olive oils, according to varieties, regions and picking periods.

These fruits are squeezed as soon as possible after their picking - made between October and March - so as to obtain the best extract.

Only virgin olive oil (that is to say non refined, and obtained by mechanical pressure) contains phenolic components. On average, we find about 1100 to 300 mg/kg of them in the virgin oil. This quantity can vary according to olive variety, its maturity (green olives give an oil richer in phenols) and the production.conditions.

Olive oil is known since antiquity : Greeks and Romans used it in their cuisines – Mediterranean cuisine -, as well as for its preventive properties.

Because of its importance in the daily life of peoples, in the antiquity, olive oil represented a wide trade supported by a well organized road system. Today, olive growing constitutes for numerous Mediterranean countries an essential agricultural activity and its socio-economical role is strategic.

The main producing countries are :

Spain, Italy, Greece, Morocco, Turkey and Tunisia.

The yearly worldwide production is of about 3 million tons.

MASTERY uses extra virgin olive oil, it's pure "fruit juice".

It is a health and youthfulness elixir coming from the olive, this "black pearl".

Virgin olive oil, thanks to its extraction by simple pressure in cold, keeps in suspension particles that give it therapeutic qualities.

Key item of the Mediterranean diet, olive oil, widely supported by the medical profession, demonstrated its benefits in the prevention of certain diseases. These benefits for health come from the composition of olive oil itself. Thanks to this balanced composition its actions are multiple.

Even if it better resists to temperature than other oils, it is important not to use olive oil at too high temperatures so that it keeps its benefits for health. Our multi-component, always manufactured at low temperature, allows to answer this constraint.

Its beneficial properties for health are possible thanks to its content in vitamin E, polyphenols, and oleic acid.

Vitamin E is a cell antioxidant.

Definition of oxidation :

It is a vital cell process to produce energy and that requires oxygen.

However, this oxidation ends-up in producing wastes (the free radicals). In normal conditions, these free radicals are recycled.

In certain circumstances, either their production increases, or the body recycling capabilities decrease. Then, there is a free radicals accumulation, and the effects are harmful on cells, which grow old and die.

Pollution, inflammatory processes, ultraviolet, tobacco, and all kinds of stresses are favourable circumstances for the appearance of free radicals in important quantity. With age, the recycling of free radicals decreases !

An antioxidant is a molecule that destroys free radicals and thus protects the sensitive cell structures.
Vitamin E protects against organic cells ageing and helps, in particular, to limit vascular, heart and kidney damages.

Vitamin E is naturally present in olive oil.

Polyphenols are also antioxidants and they act in synergy with vitamin E.
- First of all, polyphenols bring an antioxidizing protection to olive oil : they prevent it from becoming rancid and preserve all its active principles ...

- The phenolic component of olive oil are also in vivo antioxidants that play a protector role of the cell oxidant stress by trapping free radicals in synergy with
vitamin E.

This, among other things, explains the positive nutritional effects of olive oil that, thus, contribute to prevent multi-factors diseases of inflammatory type and cardiovascular type, in the Mediterranean diet.

Oleic acid of olive oil is considered by nutritionists as a good fatty acid from a nutritional point of view because it does not have the negative effects of saturated fatty acids and because it is little oxidizable in vivo (therefore, it does not favour inflammatory reactions).

This mono unsaturated fatty acid (omega 9) can be considered as a "balance" fatty acid.

Olive oil contains other polyunsaturated essential fatty acids such as omega 6.

This fatty acids are qualified of essentials as they are not synthetized in vivo by the body. They also have a beneficial role for health.

Olive oil the most digestible fat food. It prevents foods from flowing back into the oesophagus, it does not slows down stomach emptying, finally it does not modify gastric acidity.

Key element of the Mediterranean diet, olive oil, widely supported by the medical profession, demonstrated its benefits in the prevention of certain diseases and of ageing.

Regularly used Excellence with olive oil strengthens for a healthy and lasting life.

For an even more thinner silhouette, associate Excellence with olive oil, without passing the suggested ration, with the daily practice of a few games and physical exercises.

Using Excellence with olive oil daily constitutes the good nutrition reaction, in accordance with the Mediterranean diet, so as to maintain your cat always slender and active.

Throughout his adult and senior life, your cat will enjoy this complete food of exceptional palatability. For this long period, this food contains all that is essential to ensure your cat an everyday healthy diet.

Your cat is a gourmet and smell and taste are as much important for him : meat and fish, fat together with olive oil give the food an exclusive taste.

So as to guarantee your cat a perfect silhouette, the food must be :

- Rich in meat and fish : they contain proteins, basic constituent elements for muscles,

- Rich in fat, such as duck fat, source of essential fatty acids (omega 3 and 6) which favour a beautiful coat.

Naturally rich in vitamin E, olive oil brings an antioxidant action which helps to protect against cell ageing and ensures your animal a prolonged vitality.

These HEALTH BENEFITS, characteristic of our SUPER PREMIUM foods, constitute the PROTECTION CONCEPT exclusively elaborated by our VETERINARY NUTRIONISTS for your cat.

COMPOSITION : Dehydrated meat*, maize proteins, maize, wheat, poultry fats, bean pods, beet pulp, dehydrated fish*, linseed, olive oil (1.5 %), egg* powder, oil-removed soybeans, fructo-oligosaccharides, wheat bran and minerals. *Contains a minimum of 54 % of meat, fish and eggs, that is to say 23 % minimum after dehydrating.

ADDITIVES : Added nutritional additives per kg, of which : E672/vitA, 12500 IU ; E671/vitD3, 1250 IU ; vitE, 510 mg ; Taurine, 1840 mg, E4/Cu, 18 mg ; E1/Fe, 80 mg; E2/I, 3 mg ; E5/Mn, 22 mg ; E6/Zn, 120 mg. Antioxygens. Artificial colour and flavour free.

ANALYTICAL CONSTITUENTS : Protein 33 % - Fat content 18.5 % - Essential fatty acids 4 % - Crude ash 6 % - Crude fibres 4 %.