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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 large size Italian olive that is oval in shape and when ripe, it is purplish-black in color. The meat of the olive has a firm texture and it is brine-cured or dried for serving.

A medium size olive from Spain that is oval in shape and is brownish-black in color. It is brine-cured and has a soft flesh.

A medium size Greek olive that is black in color. It is a dry-cured olive, grown only on the island of Thasos in the Aegean Sea.

A small to medium size olive grown in California that is dark black when ripe. It is most often used for the production of olive oil.

A large, pale green colored Greek olive that is oval in shape and usually harvested when it is young.

A term that refers to large quantities of olive oil shipped to bottlers from various regions of a country or from several different countries.

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 food spread typically made with Italian black olives that are pureed and mixed with olive oil and black pepper.

A very small light greenish-brown colored olive native to Spain that contains a soft-textured delicately flavored meat.

A large purplish-black olive from California that grows in several different oval-shaped sizes and produced similar to Greek olives.

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 oval shaped black or green olive native to Italy. It is a brine-cured olive that generally provides a softer delicately sweet flavor.

A medium to large round green olive grown in California, but originally from Tunisia. The olive has a fruity flavor with a slightly bitter taste.

Also known as Azapena or Sevillana de Azapa, this olive is named for the region in Chile where it is grown.

It is a Spanish olive that is large in size, and oval in shape with a bright green color or purplish-black when ripe.

A medium size black olive with a shriveled flesh and soft meat that provides a bitter aftertaste. This olive is most often used as a cooking olive.

A type of low grade olive oil that must be refined before it can be sold for human consumption. The oil is obtained from the residue that remains after the "first cold pressing." Up to 90% of the oil is obtained from the olives during the first cold pressing, but the remaining 10% is contained within the residue.

An Italian descriptor for a Spanish olive that is very large and round in shape with a firm dense meat.

A large light purple or purplish-brown olive native to Chile that contains soft, almost mushy meat. It is brine-cured in vinegar and has a rich olive flavor that may be slightly bitter or acidic in taste.