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Author	Topic: raw olives?
tasya 11-29-2002 11:00 AM	Hello, I`m new here but have been lurking for a while. I had a chance to try some raw olives when I was in Turkey where olive trees are plentiful. I picked some from a tree and tried one at a market: eww! very bitter tasting. A question : are peppers fruit (capsicum and chili peppers) as they have seeds in them? Also eggplant and zucchini and pumpkin?
RRM 12-01-2002 03:46 PM	Dear Tasya, I think that olives naturally contain oleuropin, which is a bitter tasting toxin that needs to be destroyed / removed from the olives through curing. Peppers, eggplant, zuchini etc are vegetable fruits, but most of them are poorly digested / processed when consumed raw.
Scott 12-01-2002 05:00 PM	Does anyone know what happened to the old posts on olives? I can't remember what kind are recommended. Was it sodium curing that we need to avoid? The best I've found are these low sodium/no ferrous gluconate olives from the Santa Barbara Olive Co. Has anyone found something better?
RRM 12-04-2002 01:06 PM	You can also get raw olives cured without the use of salt here: http://www.rawganique.com/Food-raw-organic-olives.htm Here's a thread about olives: link and this old (very short) one : link In both threads a link to olives is included