Olives can be eaten directly, pickled and made into olive tea.

1, eat directly

Olives are a kind of plant fruit can be eaten directly, although its taste is not as attractive as other fruits, but put it in the mouth and chew slowly, the more you chew the more flavor, and the longer you chew, the sweeter the taste is more obvious.

2, pickled

Wash fresh olives with water, dry the surface water, and then into the right amount of salt, shaking it into a clean glass bottle, sealed pickled, can be placed in the refrigerator to keep, after 5 ~ 7 days after the inside of the olives can be pickled, take out can be eaten directly.

3, the production of olive tea

Prepare fresh olives and the right amount of paintbrush, wash them together, if you add the right amount of water and rock sugar, heating and boiling, and then slowly decocted over a small fire, ten minutes later, the pot of olive tea can be decocted, remove the filtered after drinking the broth can be obtained.

Olive ripening season

Ordinary olives are usually ripe in October every year, belonging to the fall and winter season fruit. Olives need to be cultivated for seven years before they bear fruit, and ripening usually occurs around October each year, after which they are ready for the market.

New olive trees begin to bear very little fruit, producing only a few kilograms per tree, before increasing significantly after 25 years, up to more than 500 kilograms. Every time an olive tree bears fruit, the following year it generally has to reduce its production, with a rest period of one to two years, so olive production is divided into large and small years.

Olives in Taiwan, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places are planted, varieties of Jiexi Fenghu olive, Chaozhou green olive, Jiexi four seasons olive, winter festival round olive, sandalwood olive, etc., in these places of origin of the different varieties of olives are ripe in October-December, ripening can be picked one after another on the market.