Raw, Certified Organic, Unsalted, Sun-Dried.

These fantastic olives are unique in the world marketplace! They contain no salt, no oil, no herbs, and have not been cured. They are 100% untouched, natural, sun-dried, ripe certified organic olives from Peru. Each olive is nearly the size of a prune with thick, juicy, tasty, savory olive flesh. We have searched for years to bring you an olive of this quality. These are the best olives available on the planet. Certified organic, certified kosher.

HOW TO EAT PERUVIAN OLIVES

unsalted
sun-dried
satisfying
excellent source of calcium
filling
#1 alkalizing fruit
dissolves mucus
These are some of the best olives EVER! They're certified organic and quite simply the most mineral-rich olives around. In nature, high nutrition is often accompanied by more pronounced and bitter flavors. Although they may be enjoyed straight from the jar, here are some recipes to mellow out the initial "bite" experienced by the consumer. Soaking in water reduces bitterness by 50%.
Soaked olives: Fill up olive jar with pure water. If desired, add 1/2 tsp celtic sea salt to jar. Olives become silky-soft after 3 days. Store in refrigerator.

Marinated olives: Soak olives as above, drain, rinse again, drain well. Fill with garlic butter (recipe follows): Mix 3/4 cup stone crushed organic olive oil with 2 tbsp coconut butter(liquid), 2 tbsp diced garlic. Store in refrigerator.

Herbed garlic butter: Add to garlic butter: 1/2 tbsp rosemary, 1 tbsp thyme, 1 tbsp oregano (preferably fresh, dry also works). You may add any other herbs of your choice.

Marinara sauce: 1/2 cup soaked sun dried tomatoes, 1 cup chopped fresh tomatoes, 2 cloves garlic, 1/2 tsp celtic salt, 2 tbsp fresh chopped basil, 1 tbsp fresh chopped rosemary, 1 tbsp dried oregano, 3 pitted soft dates, 1/2 cup stone crushed olives oil, 6 soaked pitted Peruvian olives. Blend all till smooth. Enjoy over raw zucchini pasta.
COSMIC HINT: Although the garlic butter can be reused to marinate more soaked olives, it is recommended to consume as an amazing herb sauce on salad or pasta. Also, a great Creamy Italian dressing may be created by adding the juice of two lemons and a pinch of celtic sea salt to the garlic butter. For an even creamier sauce, mash in half of an avocado to the Italian dressing. RAWESOME!!

ABOUT ESSENTIAL LIVING FOODS.

Social Impact

At Essential Living Foods, we believe that business needs to have a positive impact on the world, using the power of commerce to improve lives, communities, and ecosystems. We strive to be a “good corporate citizen” in a multitude of ways, creating positive social impact with our business model, the partners we choose, giving back a portion of our revenues and profits, how we treat our employees, and the nutritional and healing properties of our products. Everyone who works here feels great about doing something good in the world while earning a decent living at the same time.

Fair Trade

Essential Living Foods started as an importer of unique organic foods, and from the beginning we’ve built our business on paying fair prices to our farming partners. We do our best to go directly to the source whenever possible, bypassing middleman so we can deliver the best value to our customers AND pay premium prices to the growers. There are a few different certifying organizations out there putting a third party seal on these fair trade practices. We are working with all of them to get these seals in place, but even while that is in process, you can rest assured that your purchases from Essential Living Foods is supporting farmers through equitable trade practices!

Giving Back

We don’t just pay fair prices for our foods – we share our success with our farming communities by giving back a portion of what we make.

Sustainability

Sustainability is a big word for us. It means that we have to sustain our business, because if we aren’t profitable and growing, we won’t exist in the future to continue doing the good that we’re doing. It also means that we want to do everything we can to not deplete non-renewable resources and to rebuild and protect fragile ecosystems. We do this at the farm level by the organic agriculture techniques we use, as well as things like powering our office on solar power and buying carbon credits to offset all of our corporate air travel and all of our food import transportation carbon emissions.

Partners

Money flows around and around. We make money from the sales of our products, and we try to do as much good as we can with how and from whom we purchase our foods from. But aside from buying our amazing, healthy, organic superfoods, we also spend a lot of money each year on more mundane items like banking services, legal services, etc. We try to find companies of a like mind to ours to work with. We find that they understand us better, and hence can offer us better service, and we feel good that we can keep the prosperity flowing to other companies doing good in the world. Check out this link to see just some of these great partners we have!