Olives
Olives are mainly known because they are used to decorate pizzas. Olives come from the sunny Mediterranean area such as Italy, Greece, Spain and Portugal. There are lots of olive trees growing. Vegetable or fruit? Sometimes there's confusion about whether olives are a fruit or a vegetable. The Nutrition Center says an olive is a vegetable as it is equipped with a stone pit. Olive trees up to 1000 years old Olive trees can ber very old, sometimes up to 1000 years. The older the olive tree, the riper the fruit. Non ripe olives can be toxic. The tree itself does not need much water, they are fit to survive in hot and dry areas. The fruit It may take up to 5 years before an olive tree bears fruit (olives). In this round fruit there's one hard pit. The ripening of the fruits happened approximately from July to September. The olives they pick from the tree are not yet ready for consumption because they still are bitter and hard. After picking, they first need to soaked in t...