DIFFERENT TYPES OF OLIVE'S

Some types of olives are these:

• Arbequina.- We can find it in "Aragón" and "Cataluña". It has sweet taste. It can be redor green. It's small and rounded.



• Blanqueta.-It's from the north of "Alicante". It's green and it is a bit bitter and a bit hot.



• Cornicabra.-It's in "Toledo". We eat it when it is mature. Its colour is dark green.



• Empeltre.-It is in"Aragón" like the arbequina. It's very aromatic and sweet.


• Hojiblanca.- It's from "Málaga","Sevilla" and "Córdoba". They're black and small.


• Picual.- It is in "Jaen". It's big and elongated. It's black.


• Manzanilla villalonga.- It's from "Valencia". It is big and rounded. Its colour is black.

INTRODUCTION

This blog is for "Trabajo monográfico". It's about the olives. I'm going to publish all the things that we did in the first and the second term. In the first term we looked for information about the olive tree and the olive( characteristics, location, types, harvest methods, recipes...) In the second term we did some experiencies in the laboratory with olives(we extracted oil, made soap...) I hope you like te blog.

OLIVE'S ANATOMY

The olive tree fruit is called olive. It is also called drupe, and it can be of different colours (green, red or black) and sizes (from 1'5 cm to 3cm). We can divide it anatomically in two parts: the flesh and the bone. The bone represents approximately the 30% of the total weigh of the olive and it can't be eaten. The flesh is the part that we eat and we extract the oil from it.

INDEX

-Olive tree main characteristics.

• Botanic classification.
• General characteristics.
• Blossoming and fruit bearing seasons.
• The germination of the olive seeds.
• Olive tree distribuition in Spain and Europe.

-Olives, the olive's tree fruit.

• Olive's anatomy.
• Different types of olives.
• Harvest methods.
• How to prepare olives to eat? Different recipes.

-Olive oil.

• Industrial olive oil extraction. What is an olive oil mill(almazara)?
• Different types of olive oil.