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Generally a green olive that has been soaked in lye, then rinsed in water, and placed in a salt brine to process the olive.

For olives that are to be served as table olives, generally the olive is chartreuse colored when it is ripe and harvested.

The fruit from the olive tree that is small and round with a pit or stone surrounded by the flesh. Olives vary in color from bright green to brownish red and black, depending on maturity and ripeness when the fruit was picked.

An olive that has the flesh split open either manually or by a machine with thin, sharp blades in order to allow a marinade of oils (such as olive oil) vinegars, herbs (such as herbes de Provence), and spices (basil, garlic, fennel, lemon, onion, or others), to penetrate the meat faster.

An almond shaped olive that has a medium green smooth appearance, which changes to a reddish-black when it is allowed to ripen.

The oil produced from manual or machine pressing of the fruit (olives) from the olive tree. The flavor and color of the olive oil produced from the same variety of olive may vary significantly from one region to the next as well as from grower to grower, since soils and environment will have an effect on creating different flavors within olives grown in the same area.

An olive, traditionally from France, that has been cured in light brine, and marinated in herbes de Provence, which are selected herbs from Provence, France.

An olive that may be referred to as a dry-cured olive and is most likely a black olive. It is cured by storing it in salt for a period of one to several months, during which time the flesh of the fruit becomes wrinkled.

A small oval olive from Italy that has a wrinkled black flesh if they are salt cured or a smoother dark violet flesh if brine cured.

An olive that is produced in the Catalonia region of Spain. An Arebequina olive would be a traditional Catalan olive.

A small oval olive from Italy that has a wrinkled black flesh if they are dry-cured or a smoother dark violet flesh if brine or salt-cured.

An olive from France that is medium size and has a violet black color. It is brine-cured and as a table olive, has a firm textured meat with a delicate flavor.

A term used in the U.S. to describe a medium size olive that is native to Spain but grown in California.

A large Greek olive that can be dark brown, light brown or red in color. It is an oblong shaped olive that is often slit, salt brine-cured, and packed with vinegar and olive oil providing a fruity flavor, similar to a Kalamata olive.

A term that refers to olive oil that is light in flavor: It is not a designation for olive oil that is low in calories.

A French version of olive bread, made with a dough of bread flour or all-purpose flour that is studded with green or black olives.

A type of bread that is typically made with black olives, such as Kalamata olives, to provide a distinctive flavor to the bread.

A small oval olive from Italy that has a wrinkled black flesh if they are dry-cured or a smoother dark violet flesh if brine or salt-cured.

A type of olive oil that is obtained from olives grown on an individual farm. The olives are usually harvested by hand and the oil is pressed and bottled on site.

Small in size, this variety of olive is the main variety grown in the Ligurian region on the northwest coast of Italy.