Olives: Safe Methods for Home Pickling

"Methods For Curing Olives
Olives picked off the tree contain a very bitter compound called oleuropein. Harvested olives must be "cured" to remove the bitterness in order to make them palatable. The most common curing processes use brine, dry salt, water, or lye treatments. During these curing processes the water-soluble oleuropein compound is leached out of the olive flesh."

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