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<pre>> Thanks Mike, for your contribution to my knowledge.
>
> Can i deduce from that eating olive oil is better than olives
> themself since the olive oil is not elaborated and treated with
> salt...or am i wrong?

I don't really know. I can't see how adding salt would diminish the quality
of the olive oil in a table olive, just the taste. I don't think that it
would make any difference. I did a course with Prof Stan Kailis a year or so
ago and I seem to think he said much the same.

>
> or am i missing nutrients in the olives that there are not in the
> olive oil?
>

Probably some fibre, but I don't know about anything else. That is a very
good question! What is the nutrition benefit of table olives vs. olive oil?

> Every contribution to the healh effects of olives and olive oil is
> very welcome...then i will make a decision about my crop this coming
> december 2005
>

Good luck!

Mike Wilson
Hunter Valley, NSW.
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