CRETOIKOS – Mylopotamos Health Foods

We are producers of Premium Cretan Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO) & ORGANIC EVOO Olive Oil in Crete island Greece. 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.

The company Mylopotamos Health Foods was founded in 1999 by Mr. Kostas Zacharakis, a graduate of Athens University of Economics and Business, dpt. of Political Science, a native of Mylopotamos area.

His dream was to establish his own company that will promote and make available worldwide the precious products of Crete. So, he created an innovative olive oil unit in Angeliana, a traditional Cretan village in the area of Mylopotamos, in the prefecture of Rethymno.

The size of the factory is 2.000 m2 and the production capability of 2.000 bottles per hour.

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.

We have clients from all over the world who trust us, as for example the companies Chirag in Paris, Xiamen in China, Odysea in London, etc.

Traditional Cretan Products

Mylopotamos health foods and Cretoikos

We are proud to introduce our company “Mylopotamos Health Foods”, via our newly created e-shop named “Cretoikos”, in order to offer you the extra virgin olive oil of our home country, as well as its derivatives, such as Extra Virgin olive oil, Biological Extra Virgin olive oil, Extra Virgin olive oil scented with lemon/orange and various Cretan herbs, like oregano, thyme, rosemary, garlic, chili, Olives, Olives with herbs flavour, etc.

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 special features encouraged the European Union, via the regulation 2092/91, to acknowledge the great value of the variety and to characterize it as olive oil of Protected Designation of Origin (PDO), in order to distinguish this olive oil from the others of the same variety.

Our installation includes

Automated transfer line for standardised olive oil which meets the highest requirements. The unit is made in Italy and has a bottling line from 100ml to 5lt
Modern, insulated, temperature-controlled storage facilities
Storage tanks and stainless steel shipping containers
Technological equipment of the most advanced technology