Cultural olive

Description of the cultivated olive

The cultivated olive is always a green tree, reaching a height of seven meters and has a wide spreading crown. The trunk and branches of the olive are slightly curved in most cases. The young bark of the trunk is ash-gray, smooth to the touch, but cracks over time.

The leaves of the tree in the cultivated olive have a sessile shape, grow up to eight centimeters in length, have a two-color color, the top of the leaf is dark green, and the bottom is silvery-gray, they are also covered with many scales.

The cultivated olive blooms with fragrant flowers, small in size, they are both bisexual and unisexual, they sit in the axils of the leaves. Inflorescences are tassels, they do not exceed the size of the leaves. A cup with a film, in the form of a bell, having four teeth. Corolla is white with a short tube and four lobes of an egg-shaped bend.

The fruit of the cultivated olive itself can have an oblong shape, and it can also be in the shape of an egg or a ball, it can be up to three and a half centimeters in length, inside the fruit there is a fleshy white pulp and a hard bone. It usually blooms in early summer and bears fruit in autumn.

The cultivated olive trees are widespread along the shores of the Mediterranean.
Most of all, this plant is grown in Spain, Italy, Portugal, Greece and other countries.

Cultivated olive: use in treatment

The best varieties of oils are used in medicines for ingestion in the form of an emulsion, it will be an emollient and gentle laxative for diseases of the digestive system and gallstone disease. Olive oil is widely used as a base for various ointments and patches.

If you give the animals the leaves of an olive tree, the leaf extract will help lower blood pressure, thereby affecting the peripheral vessels. Fresh leaf extract is more active than dry leaf extract. Abroad, leaves are treated with hypertension.

It is popular among the people to use the third grade oil obtained from cultivated olives. It is taken orally for constipation, it will have a laxative effect, it is also used for poisoning, alternating with warm water and warm milk. Olive oil is also used externally, rubbing bruises, bee stings, bumblebees and wasps.

Application in food

Cultivated olives belong to the category of foods that contain great nutritional value. It contains proteins, sugars, pectin and minerals and many different vitamins.

Some varieties of cultivated olives are bitter, which means that they contain a substance such as glucoside oleuropein. Usually, unripe fruits contain much more of it than fruits that are ripe.

Vegetable olive oil is obtained from the fruits of the cultivated olive, and is also used in canning. The best variety of olive oil is Provencal, it has a very high taste and most of all vitamins. This oil is almost completely absorbed in the body, has a beneficial effect on the function of the gastrointestinal tract and on the function of the liver.

Cultivated olive oil is used for preparing salads, snacks and main courses. It is widely distributed in canned fish, for example, it is used in the production of sprats.Olive oil gives even more fatty acids and vitamins to fish products and makes their taste even more excellent.

For preservation, the fruits of the olives are dried, both ripe and unripe berries are pickled, and green olives are salted in brine. Dried olives taste like roasted sunflower seeds, with almost no bitterness.

Dried cultivated olives will retain all their properties as fresh. Ripe black olives and semi-ripe burgundy olives are prepared in brine from fruits that are early ripening and rich in oil. If the solution is flavored with spices, it will greatly enhance the taste of black olives.

If the fruit of the cultivated olives, which are already similar in size to mature ones, but still remain green in color, then such green olives are cooked in brine, which are also pleasant to the taste, with a delicate aroma and contain many nutrients.

Black cultivated olives, which are large in size, are good for stuffing them with other ingredients. Delicious snacks are obtained.