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A pureed spread made from black olives, anchovies, capers, olive oil, and at times is seasoned with garlic and herbs.
A golden colored oil with a citrus aroma that is produced from the skin of the lemon. As edible oil, it is commonly used as a dressing for salad oils or as a food ingredient.
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 food spread typically made with Italian black olives that are pureed and mixed with olive oil and black pepper.
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 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.
A small Italian olive, round in shape and dark brownish violet in color. It is most often used to produce a high quality olive oil.
A small Italian olive that is spherical in shape and black in color. It is most often used to produce olive oil.
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 very large sized olive that can be dark green as a table olive and ripen to a dark violet in color when used to produce olive oil.
A medium size olive from Italy that is purplish-black in color and round in shape. It is most often used to produce an olive oil that has a fruity flavor, which is slightly bitter.
A Greek olive that is very small, oval in shape, and darker violet in coloring when ripe. It is most often used to produce olive oil.
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.
A medium-sized, cracked Greek olive that is light to dark green in color. Brine-cured and packed with olive oil, the firm meat of the Naflion Olive provides a crisp nutty flavor with a somewhat sour and salty overtone.
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 medium to large sized Mediterranean olive common in Italy. Mildly fruity and only slightly bitter in taste, this olive is meaty and provides a good amount of oil when used in the production of olive oil.
A medium size Italian olive that is oval shaped and purplish-black in color. It is a prized table olive and is also used to produce olive oil with a delicate and mild flavor.
A medium sized Spanish olive that is elongated in shape and a darker violet when harvested. It is most often used to produce higher quality olive oil, but is also produced as a table olive soaked in sherry to be used as an hors d'oeuvre.
A large size Italian olive, long and oval in shape, that is black in color when harvested. It is most often used to produce olive oil.
A large sized Greek olive that can be dark brown, light brown or red in color. It is an oblong shaped olive that is slit, salt brine-cured, packed with vinegar and olive oil providing a fruity flavor, similar to a Kalamata olive.
Top 69 glossary terms found