The characteristics of the Cretan diet
• If we wanted to sketch a rough pattern of the Cretan diet in the 1960s, we could say that the core of this diet consisted of food derived from natural sources, whereas food of animal origin was more peripheral in nature.

In general, people consumed seasonal products, available in the wider local area, which underwent minimal processing or none at all.

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Near by the Falasarna Villas at surrounding hills of west Crete there are olive trees. The sun bathes them from the sunrise up to the sunset where the sun turns off to the sea.

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