What is the difference between a table olive and olives for making only fine olive oil?
To start with, the trees are different, which you can tell by the leaves. Manzanilla olive trees have clear green leaves; Queen olive trees have silvery green leaves; and olive trees for olive oil have small, dark green leaves and bear smaller fruit, which gives a high olive oil yield (each 220 lbs. of these olives produces 24/25 lbs. of olive oil), whereas the Manzanilla olives give much less oil. The oil of the Manzanilla olive is of a fine quality, but is not economical to produce. The least oil per kilo comes from the fat Queen olives.
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