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.