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The Cultivation of the Olivo

by Max Li Bassi

The cultivation of the olivo is circumscribed to the only Mediterranean area, that with its production of oil drawn by the drupes of olivo, from the optimal taste it is certainly, in proportion, a least part of the oil that circulates in the World.

The quality of the oil is constituted in the ground, that has to have ideal characteristics and its south is very important exposure and the absolute necessity of winds that blow from the sea. The plant of the ulivo appreciates at night a moderate climate, the solar light and damp coolness.

To speak of oil of olive today is easy a great deal. Many articles, Internet sites, monographs illustrate the distinguished virtues of the ulivo in all of its facets from the Almighties religious meanings, allegorical of the ancient and mythical world, up to the symbols used to our days. If we want to speak of oil to the point of view of the great one "business", that is behind, it represents a so great economic bargain, that cannot avoid to arouse in the man you win thoughts and easy speculations.

The information legislative and journalistic certain times is misguided by particular affairs. If the oil of olive has not disappeared from the circulation, it is not everything worth of the men, but of the ability of resistance of this marvelous tree. The fool that was not able the nature was almost put the men with the misinformation into practice and worse still the superficiality, that they are the discouraging devastators of every thing. We don't forget the industrial conquerors of the oil of seeds, well organized and determined to submit to the market, with all the means their products, advertising them to hammer. They have succeeded in changing certain good person ancient habits.

When for law was enacted, that to point out the oil, simply gotten by the spremitura of the olives, it was had to call it "oil extra virgin of olive" the sofisticatoris are instigated, with the complicity of the labels. That type of oil, that has to have an acidity oleica, inferior to the one for cent. But, also here, quite a lot laboratories are given a big from do, to correct, also the worse ones, and also what didn't have anything to that to do with the olives, became extra virgin.

To this intention it is to remember well that, after a relationship of analysis, done in a serious laboratory, in reference to the sour oleico, to guarantee that anybody rectification has not been effected, it would need to attach the curve of absorption to the rays UV. The diagram of these analytical results owes linear. The consumer is often, deceived by the complex language of the labels, wanted such from a lascivious legislation, that is applied by skilled speculators.

To end, who purchase has to know what inside the bottle and with the community rules is, it should be "easy" to decipher the sigles and the codes in the labels.

An oil not manipulated, corrected not, not mixed and produced only with the simple cold pressing of the olives, harvests second the ancient rule, has to have a low acidity for a good perfume and a pleasant aftertaste to be digestible. It has to be, above all, sincere.

But how much is of this oil really in circulation?

Max Li Bassi

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