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- The substance that renders it essentially inedible is oleuropein, a phenolic compound bitter enough to shrivel your teeth. The bitterness is a protective mechanism for olives, useful for fending off invasive microorganisms and seed-crunching mammals.
www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/olives--the-bitter-truth
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Aug 11, 2021 · When they're freshly picked from the tree, unripe olives are inedible. The taste is so astringent that even the most bitter lover would have trouble getting them down. This pungent flavor is...
- Tove Danovich
Sep 9, 1993 · California olive industry representatives say the small-sized Mission and Manzanillo olives are in demand today because more of the fruit “fits in a can” than the larger-sized Sevillano...
3 days ago · Olives: an ancient crop with modern appeal. Olives are a fruit, technically a “drupe” or stone fruit, like cherries and peaches. While most don’t think of olives this way, this classification explains why they produce such rich, complex oils — similar to their cousin, the almond. But fresh olives are inedible.
May 6, 2022 · Olives, specifically, the European Olive (Olea europaea L.), are grown commercially in California for table black olives and table oil. Virtually all of this production is in the Central Valley of California.
- Sam Romano
Aug 4, 2016 · Surrounded by a cooperative climate, Californians started planting acres of olive trees in response to the high demand for olive oil in the 1800s. When the market became saturated (ironically, with monounsaturated oil), prices dropped, and farmers were tasked with finding an alternative use for their olive trees.
Feb 15, 2019 · Fruiting olives trees produce edible olives; non-fruiting trees, which are ornamental only, do not. “The trees stirred something in me that was almost dreamlike,” she says.
