CRETOIKOS - Mylopotamos Health Foods

“Our motive is to show the consumers our love and respect to the soil and especially the olive tree, its most precious fruit, the olive oil – the “liquid gold” as it was called by Homer, the great poet of the Antiquity. Also, due to our long-time experience, we hold a significant position in the olive oil market and the agricultural products market in general, both in Greece and abroad.”

- Mr. Kostas Zacharakis

Founded in 1999, with a dream to establish his own company that will promote Cretan Products. Mr. Kostas created Mylopotamos Health Foods, an innovative olive oil unit in Angeliana

A traditional Cretan village in the area of Mylopotamos in the prefecture of Rethymno. There Mr. Kostas produces world renowned premium Cretan Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO) and its Derrivatives…

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International Awards

Sitia Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Second prize at the 2005 Mario Solinas Quality Award held in Madrid
Second prize at the 2008 World Food held in Moscow

Protected Designation of Origin

The long periods of sunshine, the few rainfalls, the humidity and the sea salt, generate the ideal climate to produce the best variety of olive oil in the Mediterranean area, produced by Koroneiki olive trees. These unique features characterize it as olive oil of Protected Designation of Origin

Same-Day Extraction

The process of extracting the olive oil from the olive fruit is carried out on Harvest day. The procedure takes place under health control supervisors and the support of state-of-the-art machinery

Low-Temperature Processing

Processed under low temperatures to achieve low acidity. Operated under under health control supervisors and the support of state-of-the-art machinery