Introduction: the olive oil
Olive: botanical aspects and cultivation
Composition of the ripe olive, nutritional properties
Olive harvest
Olive oil: chemical composition
Olive oil: properties and nutritional characteristics
Preparation of the olive oil
Conservation of olive oil
Pomace oil
Classification of olive oils, analysis and fraud
Olive oil as a laxative
Olive tree in herbal medicine - sea buckthorn
Cosmetic use: olive oil - Olive oil unsaponifiables - Olive leaf extract
Olive tree
European olea L
Fam. Oleaceae
Description
After the harvest, the cleaned olives are crushed in the mills from which a pulp comes out and passes to the pressing. The first squeezed olive oil is virgin, followed by more watery portions. The oil must then be filtered and purified. The residues of the pressing are called pomace and are used in various ways.
Areal and culture
The origin of the olive tree is uncertain: some say that it derives from the wild olive tree (olive or wild olive) which has a shrubby habit, others, on the other hand, think that wild olive trees derive from those cultivated after the wild. In any case there are traces of the olive tree in Europe already in the tertiary sector, it probably comes from Asia Minor: finds dating back to about 3000 years BC. they are found in Crete and Mycenae.The oldest written mention is in the Bible: the dove with an olive branch in its beak announced to Noah the end of the universal flood. Since then the olive tree has been a symbol of peace.
Currently it is cultivated in the temperate-warm regions of the whole Mediterranean basin and also of America and Australia.
ADVERSITY: many; the main ones are the cold, between the meteoric ones and an insect, the oil fly (Dacus oleae).
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