The Mystery of the First Olive Eater
It’s often been speculated on, just how did early man discover the worth of the humble olive? I mean, pick a ripe one off the tree and pop it into your mouth, then chew. Hmmm… Pretty awful, isn’t it? But the final product is delicious, so how did early man make the discovery jump?
The fact is, no one knows for certain. Perhaps a hungry person several thousand years ago came across some olive that had fallen into sea water. The brine solution might have effectively processed them and somehow it was discovered that they tasted quite good. It isn’t too much of a jump in such a situation to extrapolate that artificially processing them in brine will reproduce similar results!
Processing olives is a slow and careful process. It’s been perfected over the centuries into an art, though each region has its own little “secrets.” According to WHFoods.org:
Olives cannot be eaten right off of the tree; they require special processing to reduce their intrinsic bitterness, caused by the glycoside oleuropein, which is concentrated in their skin. These processing methods vary with the olive variety, cultivation region, and the desired taste, texture and color to be created.
But you don’t need to know all that to know that olives are a great food source that produce the finest kind of vegetable oil the world has ever known. I wonder, did early man ever think about the oil trapped inside the olive?
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The Sheer Versatility of Olive Oil
There can't be many foods whose names have been used as a cartoon character. Olive Oyl is, of course, the girl friend of Popeye the sailor. He may seem a little bit dated these days, but it shows the awareness of olives and their oil in earlier times.
Olive oil is indeed a very versatile food substance. The olive is essentially a fruit and a very healthy one too. The oil derived from the olive can be used for cooking, to make soap, to supply light, in the form of oil for a lamp, and it is even used in the pharaceutical and cosmetics industries.
About 5% of the world's olive production comes from outside the Mediterranean basin. That means that the vast majority of olives come from the warm Mediterranean countries. Spain is the world leader in olive oil production, followed closely by countries such as Italy, Turkey and Greece.
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Scientists from the UGR are using olive stones to depollute industrial sewage water
A question arises whenever olive oil is obtained: what can we do with its agricultural residues, such as olive vegetable water, browse leaves, or the solid waste known as ‘alpeorujo’?
By Antonio Marín Ruiz,
A study carried out by Dr. Germán Tenorio Rivas, a member of the research group “Solids concentration and bioremediation” from the Department of Chemical Engineering of the University of Granada (Universidad de Granada) has found an interesting use for the apparently useless olive stones: they eliminate hard metals –chrome, to be precise- by biosorption in sewage water from industries such as painting, tannery or galvanizing industry.
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Huile d’olive & protection douanière
Le secteur de l’huile d’olive bénéficie d’une protection douanière “suffisante” sur ses différentes importations, qui s’élève à 49%, outre la taxe sur la valeur ajoutée, qui atteint 20%, a indiqué mardi le ministre de l’Agriculture, du Développement rural et des Pêches maritimes, Mohand Laenser.
Intervenant lors de la séance des questions orales à la Chambre des conseillers, M. Laenser a précisé que l’importation de l’huile d’olive de Tunisie s’inscrit dans le cadre de la convention quadripartite signée entre le Maroc, la Tunisie, la Jordanie et l’Egypte.
Près de 3.000 tonnes d’huiles d’olives ont été importées de la Tunisie entre le 12 janvier et le 23 mars dernier, pour un prix moyen variant entre 22.000 et 25.000 DH/tonne, a rappelé le ministre.
M. Laenser a ajouté que son département accorde un intérêt particulier à ce secteur et suit de près les quantités d’huiles d’olive importées de Tunisie, ajoutant que s’il s’avère que la production nationale est affectée par cette importation, les mesures de protection prévues par la convention seront appliquées.
Le ministre a rappelé que son département a mis en place, depuis 1999, plusieurs mécanismes incitatifs pour encourager les différents acteurs à investir dans ce secteur, citant notamment dans ce cadre les subventions d’investissement, la promotion des plants et des unités de transformation, le renforcement de l’encadrement et la mise en place du cadre juridique régissant la commercialisation des produits oléicoles.
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Looking After Your Heart With Olive Oil
We all know that too much of certain foods and drinks can cause accumulative damage to the heart over time. Fatty foods can clog the arteries and too much alcohol causes damage too. But this is a negative approach. For a change, let’s talk about the foods that actually are beneficial for the heart!
Interestingly, red wine falls into this category, though only if taken in moderation. Certain kinds of oily and fatty fish have also been proven to have beneficial properties, but the oiliest of them all, olive oil, is perhaps the best of them all when it comes to looking after you heart.
Of course, oilove oil on it own is not really enough. You need to use it as part of a healthy regime, but it is a major part of that regime if used properly. Monounsaturated oil is the primary oil source in olive oil. Regular use of olive oil in your diet can help to reduce your risk of heart disease, sometimes considerably so.
But if you really must have that fatty hamburger, then there’s some good news too. Olive oil can even help to break down the fats, but only if it is already part of your normal diet. So, consume lots of olive oil, and have the occasional hamburger – if you must. But after eating foods healthy cooked in extra virgin olive oil, who would want a greasy hamburger!
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