Todays wallpapper: "Olive Market"
Here are some fun facts about olives:
- The olive is an evergreen tree – because it does not drop its leaves in winter it has the capacity to work throughout the year to produce the energy-rich goodies that go into making delicious olives and olive oil.
- The olive tree has small, creamy-white flowers arranged in clusters called panicles. Most of them will drop off within a few days without setting fruit. They were just there for the pollen.
- On average, an olive tree can live to a ripe old age with some specimens over a thousand years old still bearing very good crops.
- Colour of the fruit depends on the maturity of the fruit. All olives start out green and then turn darker maroon or black as they ripen. A few rare varieties do not colour but go whitish.
- Olive oil is naturally cholesterol, sodium, and carbohydrate-free.
- There is evidence of olive oil extraction in the Middle East from before 4500 BC.
- Unlike wine, olive oil doesn’t improve with age. A good quality olive oil should keep up to two years. Exposure to air, light, warm temperatures and moisture shorten the shelf life of olive oil.
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