The Cretan diet is the ultimate model of the Mediterranean diet. Since ancient times, it was considered the ideal diet for the longevity and good health of the Cretans. Thus, the people of Crete have kept all these succesful dietary habits, always consuming the precious products that their blessed soil offers to them. In recent years the Cretan diet in correlation with the Cretan\'s excellent physical health, became the target of a worldwide interest. Many scientists started researching and eventually publishing their findings in scientific journals.The results concurres: there is indeed a direct correlation between the Cretan diet and their excellent physical state and they owe it all to their traditional cuisine.