Oil and its properties are known for a long time. However to olive oil special attention was always paid. What it is connected with?
Application of olive oil is known to people several dozen centuries. Today it is carried out in such spheres: in medicine, production of food and also cosmetic business. Southern Europe is considered the homeland of olive (more precisely - the coast of the Mediterranean Sea), but also it is widespread in Australia, the USA, some types grow on the Black Sea coast.
The olive is known already several millennia to the person that it is confirmed by excavation of ancient fossils of this tree. Grades of olives great variety, as well as applications of these grades in various spheres of activity (some grades use for receiving oil, others – fruits with a small stone in food in a fresh, dried or tinned look).
Before emergence of electricity the people of the Mediterranean used oil for lighting of the housing as they weren't able to remove bitterness at process of processing of fruits simply. Later technologies for mitigation, maintaining taste and an uluchuchsheniye of consumer properties by soaking of fruits during some time were developed. Thanks to it olive oil began to be used widely in food.
Olive is one of a number of the most valuable food products as there is great variety of the recipes on the basis of oil applied in the medical purposes to treatment of problems with vessels, excess weight, skin diseases. It is necessary to pay tribute to effect which the olive oil used in the cosmetic purposes has. The creams saturated with vitamins, organic acids, masks, balms and specialized soap on the basis of oil give unsurpassed effect.
As a part of oil there are substances with unique properties, and nonsaturated fatty acids can reduce cholesterol, maintaining balance in an organism that is widely applied in a so-called Mediterranean diet.
Oil of a so-called first cold extraction (Extra virgin) with the low content of acids is most of all appreciated. The acidity of this oil on the international classification shouldn't be more than 0.8%. The product from Greece is especially appreciated (island of Crete). In the homeland this product was perfectly learned to be used also in the confectionery industry. Interestingly and that after the made experiments by scientists an established fact - olive oil the most suitable of all oils which can be used for frying as can keep the properties at strong heating.