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Article: Golden oil of the Mediterranean; it may be worth even more than gold to your body. (olive oil)
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- Vibrant Life
- Article date:
- January 1, 1991
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Golden Oil of the Mediterranean
Asia Minor is generally regarded as the first home of the olive tree, Olea europaea. While the Greeks were largely responsible for introducing the olive tree to Western Europe thousands of years ago, the Spanish are credited with bringing it to the Americas in the sixteenth century. The olive tree is a very hardy plant, surviving in rather dry and unproductive soils.
Oil production. Ninety-eight percent of the world's olive trees grow in the Mediterranean region, with Spain, Italy, Greece, and Turkey the major producers of both table olives and olive oil. Of the 8 million metric tons of olives harvested each year, 92 ...