Maybe everyone has eaten or used olive oil to some extent. Olive oil mainly comes from this variety of olive, and its fat content is about 30%, while the fat content of olive fruit we usually eat is only about 1%.
So what's the function of olives?
1. Provide nutrition for human body
Olive pulp contains sugar, fat, protein, vitamins and mineral elements such as calcium, iron and magnesium. In particular, the content of calcium is higher than other fruits, and the content of vitamin C is also high, which is very rich in nutrition.
Relieve sore throat and cough
Olive, as a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, is used to make Qinggan Liyan buccal tablets, Zhike Qingguo pills and so on. This is because of the efficacy of flavonoids and phenols contained in olive fruit. Eating some olive fruit when coughing has a good auxiliary effect on relieving throat discomfort and treating cough.
3. Antioxidant activity
Vitamin C and polyphenols in olive fruit have a good antioxidant effect and can remove excess free radicals in human body. Eating olives regularly has certain anti-aging effect.
4. Hangover and liver protection
Olive fruit contains ellagic acid, corilagin, kaempferol and other components with anti-hepatotoxicity and liver protection, so olive has also been developed into products such as olive hangover drink.
The efficacy of olives is also common in ancient books. Compendium of Materia Medica and Rihuazi Materia Medica all show that it has the effects of relieving hangover and promoting fluid production, relieving sore throat and relieving cough.
Olive fruit on the market includes salted olive fruit, fresh olive fruit, candied olive fruit, honey soaked olive fruit, licorice olive fruit and so on. Olive fruit can also be used to make tea and soup. Be careful, though. Some beautiful-looking green olives on the fruit stand may have been soaked in alum.