The form of the fruit, or drupe, depends on the variety but is generally oval. The branches produce inflorescences and hence drupes in alternate years. The oil is contained mostly in the flesh and least of all in the seed. The oil must is the fleshy part of the olive, consisting of the oil and water. The oil is the essential part of the must.
Olive oil consists of olein, palmitin, stearin, linolein.
Good oil has a high percentage of olein and aromatic substances, is obtained from sound olives, harvested at the right stage of maturation and with correct techniques, but most of all it depends on the quality of the olives when they are brought for pressing. No part of this text may be reproduced. All rights reserved.