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Saturday, 14 November 2026
21 facts about olives
21 facts about olives
"Where the olive refuses to grow, there the Mediterranean world ends"
It is not known exactly when and where the first olive tree, characteristic of the Mediterranean region, grew. Paleobotanists claim that wild olives g ...

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Strawberry
Strawberries are harvested between 4 and 6 weeks after flowering.
Only those entirely red are harvested, and the process is repeated every three days for about three weeks.
Asparagus
Roasted asparagus seeds are a coffee surrogate.
Strawberry
Strawberries with whipped cream were introduced by Thomas Wolsey, a 16th-century Catholic bishop.
He invented and prepared this dish for Henry VIII - the King of England - and his court.
Cerbera odollam
The plant spreads by fruit drifting in the water along the coast.
Broad beans
In medieval France, it was very popular, broad beans were used to make flour for bread or nutritious pancakes.
Kale
Kale juice is known in Japan as aojiru and is a very popular dietary supplement there.
Pears
They were cultivated in ancient China as early as the 20th century BC and in ancient Greece around the 8th century BC.
In the 12th century, methods for growing these trees were written down in an agricultural manual by ...
Chestnuts
Chestnuts come from temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
They occur in forests, often in mountainous areas and mountain valleys, where they sometimes play th ...
Cocoa bean
The oldest traces of the use of cocoa seeds as food were found in Ecuador, in the upper reaches of the Amazon tributaries, at an archaeological site dating back to 5450-5300 years BP (before the present, which is assumed to be 1950).
In Central America, archaeological finds indicate the use of cocoa since 3900 years BP, and in the s ...
Olives
The color of the olives depends on when they are harvested.
Green olives are harvested before ripening and coloring but after they have reached the right size. Color-changing olives are harvested as they ripen and black olives are harvested at full maturity.