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jorgegranja · #3 July 16th, 2006, 09:25 AM

We’re speaking about two completely different products here.

Olive is a fruit so it has all the natural components (proteins, sugars, fat and fibbers), while olive oil is only pure fat.

Now, if you’re talking about the good anti-oxidant stuff, the polyphenols, it depends manly on the treatment the olive fruits have suffered to in order to make them edible.
Only the olives produced with natural fermentation will have a high content of polyphenols (higher than olive oil). Where chemical oxidation was used there won’t be any anti-oxidants left.