Re: The Olive (Olea Europea)

http://evolotus.gaia.com — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 02:48:42 GMT

I have always heard that raw olives off the tree (not marinated raw olives) are a bad choice - some compound unique to olives (oleo-something) that is highly likely to cause digestive upset.

I have a tiny olive tree that produced four! four olives this year, and I just watched them wither on the counter because I couldn't find the time to do something with them. Pity.

Pity? Get it? Pit? Olives have pits...! Ah, I slay myself.

The Olive (Olea Europea)

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:08:24 GMT

"Olives are a biblical fruit associated in the scriptures with symbols of goodness, happiness, purity, and prosperity." Taken from the amazing book Sunfood Diet Success System by David Wolfe.

I personally could eat them until the cows come home, it was only when i started to turn to the raw lifestyle that i learn't how most of the olives i had been eating were packaged. YIKES!!

Here are a few tips taken from the above mentioned book:

avoid high quantities of vinegar-soaked olives as they are acid forming and can upset the stomach if eaten excessively
Canned black olives have been pasteurized and soaked in ferrous gluconate (an iron compound which darkens them) and should be avoided.
Aside from being able to pick them from under the tree, the best choice to eat olives is to find thick, juicy Sun-ripened ones.

Peruvian olives are a good choice available from www.Rawfood.com
Mission olives too from Southern California are mean't to be divine tasting.

Try to use only stone-crushed, cold-pressed extra virgin organic American or European olive oil brands in dark bottles (oils are light sensitive).

I tend to use italian oils, loooove the taste.

Enjoy!

Steph :-)

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