Klea Early Harvest Extra Virgin Olive Oil (500ml Tin)

High in Polyphenols, this is an excellent choice for daily health

Klea Early Harvest has a nice creamy mouthfeel with fresh kale overtones and a little spice kick at the end. 

This is an early harvest oil, meaning it’s made before the olives ripen so it's more potent in polyphenols than our other offerings.  Some of our customers like to take a tablespoon a day for the health benefits.  It even qualifies to legally label it as a substantiated "Health Claim" in Europe.

Can you cook with it? Yes, of course!  I use it every time I saute onions, garlic, celery, bell pepper or whatever I want to start my Italian gravy or Greek chickpea soup (it’s so good.  Look up a recipe for revithosoupa!).  After the food is done drizzle some over the top.  These healthy oils are best used for low and slow cooking like this but don’t use it for high heat frying due to the low smoke point.   

Use this at the table or in the kitchen to make almost anything better.   Along with our other oils, we invite you to put it on salads, soups, breads and whatever else you can get creative with!  My favorite combo is Klea EVOO, red wine vinegar (I make my own vinegar but store bought works just fine), salt and pepper. 

These 500ml tins are great.  The tin keeps it light-tight for maximum freshness.  What’s more, this is perfect for refilling our nice clay bottles in an economical way!

Other interesting points: Klea Early Harvest is a mono-cultivar extra virgin olive oil made from unripe olive fruits hand picked from Dimitris’s own olive trees.  The green olives then undergo an immediate extraction process within a few hours of harvest and in temperatures below 77°.  The result is a well-balanced extra virgin olive oil, low acidity and highly concentrated polyphenols.  Just enough polyphenols to be super healthy but not too many to make it too bitter.

Cultivar: 100% Chondrolia Chalkidkis (an olive type native to Halkidiki)

Harvest: Oct. 2025 (This is an early harvest oil, made before the olives ripen)

Location: South-Central Halkidiki

Acidity: 0.27 (This is well below the EVOO limit of ≤0.8)

Polyphenols:  At 777 mg/Kg, this oil is considered highly therapeutic. Compounds at these levels are what make it a "superfood" rather than just a regular monounsaturated fat.  Most supermarket brands are in the 100-200 range. 

Producer:  The Psathas family

Size: 500ml (16.9 Fl.Oz)