Olives can be eaten raw. Eating olives raw is the best way to eat. Although it tastes bitter, it tastes sweeter and more fragrant when chewed in your mouth. If you don't like it, you can soak it in salt water or licorice water to remove the bitterness. The soaked water also has the function of resolving phlegm.

2. The benefits of eating olives

(1) clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving sore throat and resolving phlegm

Olive is rich in nutrition and has certain medicinal effects. Eating regularly is good for your health. Olive is sweet and sour, and has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving sore throat, resolving phlegm, promoting fluid production to quench thirst, stimulating appetite, reducing qi, and relieving restlessness. It is suitable for treating sore throat, hemoptysis and vomiting blood, bacillary dysentery, epilepsy, summer heat, polydipsia, enteritis and diarrhea.

(2) lowering blood sugar

Olives also have a good hypoglycemic effect and are very suitable for diabetics. Indians have reported that the seeds of Syzygium hainanensis can treat diabetes in clinic. The results showed that the alcohol extract of seeds had hypoglycemic effect on male rabbits, and its intensity was similar to that of D860, but slightly weaker. Oral administration of ethanol extract from seeds (5 days after injection of alloxan or taken at the same time) for 7 ~ 27 days can reduce blood sugar to normal, eliminate urine sugar and improve polyphagia.

(3) promoting brain development

Olives have very high nutritional value, and they are rich in nutrients. However, the study found that eating olives during pregnancy and lactation can obviously promote the development of the baby's brain and make the baby smart. Therefore, the population suitable for eating olives is still very wide.

(4) Reduce the risk of cancer.

Nowadays, talking about the age of cancer discoloration has to make people pay attention to the problem of diet. Modern medical research has found that intake of calcium-rich substances can reduce the risk of colon cancer and rectal cancer. Olives have high calcium content, and the ratio of calcium to phosphorus is much greater than 2. If eaten regularly, there is enough calcium in the human body to combine with fatty acids and bile acids to form insoluble compounds and excrete them, thus reducing the carcinogenic effect on the intestine.