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The Olive (Olea Europea)

Steph [no longer around] said Nov 26, 2008, 7:08 PM:
 

“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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Re: The Olive (Olea Europea)

Evolotus said Dec 22, 2008, 6:48 PM:
 

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.