Removing bitterness of olives leaves a lot of salt
By Ed Blonz, Ph.D.
Q: We all know how healthful extra virgin olive oil is for us. Do we get the same health benefit from eating olives?
A: Olives are quite bitter coming off the tree. When used as eating olives, they need to undergo a curing process to remove this bitterness. It usually involves a salt solution, or one using lye (sodium hydroxide).
Both processes leave the eating olives quite high in sodium; 15 grams of olives (3-5 olives, depending on size) contain about 115 milligrams of sodium. (In pimento-stuffed olives, the sodium can be twice that amount.)
When olives are used for oil, the harvested olives go directly to the presses without treatment. The fatty acid profile and types of phytochemicals are similar between eating olives and extra virgin olive oil, but you would have to eat many olives to equal a comparable amount of oil.
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Kairouan, démarrage de la campagne de cueillette des olives
Symbole de paix et de sagesse, l’olivier est un arbre originaire d’Asie qui a été introduit dans notre pays par les Carthaginois et les Romains.
Ses feuilles et son huile jouissent de précieuses vertus médicinales.
Concernant le gouvernorat de Kairouan, cet arbre vénéré par les fellahs, constitue la base de l’arboriculture. Ainsi on y compte 5,7 millions de pieds d’oliviers dont 4.500.000 sont en pleine production, et ce, sur une superficie de 156,4 mille hectares.
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Wine Pairing & Olive Oil Seminars & Wine BBQ
By Judith Salkin,
Let’s face it, a weekend of doing nothing but eating fine food, drinking fine wine, listening to fine music and eyeing fine art sounds like a pretty good way to get the desert’s social season off to a fine start.
If this sounds like a way you’d like to spend your time this Thursday through Sunday, Palm Desert’s inaugural Art of Food and Wine Festival still has tickets to some of the events. From Thursday evening’s public art dedication at The Gardens on El Paseo to Sunday’s Grand Tasting, Palm Desert will be turned into an Epicurean delight.
From 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Friday, get an education in wine tasting, olive oil and down a little barbecue, too. At 10 a.m., join Kim Beto of Southern Wine & Spirits and Chef Paul Squicciarini of Culinary Concepts to learn how wine is affected by the food you eat. At 11 a.m., Thomas L. Curry III, certified master taster and general manager of the Temecula Olive Oil Company, walks you through the joy of liquid gold that includes an olive oil tasting. The day is topped off at 1 p.m., when featured chefs step out of the kitchen at an interactive lunch that includes cooking demonstrations and wine pairings at Desert Springs Marriott. Tickets are $175 for the entire day.
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Musco Olive Chooses Junction Solutions for Food & Beverage ERP Solution
Top American olive supplier chooses JunctionF/B and Microsoft Dynamics AX–
Junction Solutions, the premier provider of food and beverage focused enterprise software and services based on the Microsoft platform, today announced that Musco Family Olive, the largest supplier of table olives in America, has chosen JunctionF/B(TM) and Microsoft Dynamics(TM) AX enterprise software to improve control and streamline processes over food processing and financial operations.
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Baptiser un olivier au nom de l’être aimé – Un cadeau original
Baptisez un olivier au nom de la personne aimée, remettez-lui son certificat d’enregistrement et la carte de localisation précise de « son arbre-symbole », associez à cela une bouteille d’huile d’olive personnalisée à son nom et provenant du domaine de «son» olivier, l’ensemble accompagné d’un petit olivier en pot qu’elle verra prospérer au cours des années.
Riche de tous ces éléments, le coffret-cadeau DdO que vous lui remettrez, empli de symboles et de poésie, traduira l’attention que vous portez à cette personne que vous souhaitez honorer et voir comblée.
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