The olive oil is the juice of the olive; it is thus a totally natural product stemming from a fresh product. A fruit (an olive) very mature amounted to a fruit full of oil. The olive oil is then the fat extracted from some fruits of the olive tree. It consists about 99 % of lipids that is of fats.
This product exists since millenniums and was produced in the Mediterranean Basin. It is an inescapable ingredient in the “Mediterranean cooking”.
It is a product which, since a few decades, is worldwide known integer. Furthermore, it is one of the vegetable oil most wanted and appreciated today in the world of the gastronomy, in particular because of its intense flavor, but also, of its content in vitamins and in fatty acids, that allow to compose a balanced diet.
The Oracle of Delfos said that the one who gives the city the best gift would be the one to name it.
Poseidon build a river of salted water and Atenea created the olive tree.
Atenea won and the olive tree was the symbol and the most representative icon of the Greek and the Roman empires.
From the the olive tree humans extract the juice of the olives, the olive oil.