Olives are quite possibly the world's most perfect food! David Wolfe has written in his book The Sunfood Diet Success System if he had to pick one fruit to live on for the rest of his life, it would be the olive. The Romans believed the olive to be an incredibly sexual fruit, an aphrodisiac, especially when eaten in large quantities. Once you delve into the olive, you will become privy to the great Mediterranean secret of health, happiness, and longevity.

The olive is a magical fruit. Consider the power and benefits of the olive. The raw olive is:

• The highest fruit in minerals!
• The highest fruit in calcium. Olives contain twice as much calcium as oranges by weight.
• High in magnesium.
• High in amino acids, including: leucine, aspartic acid, and glutaminic acid
• An alkaline fruit.
• A fatty fruit (mostly monounsaturated fat).
• An alkaline fat source.
• Loaded with beneficial omega 3 and omega 6 fatty acids.
• High in vitamins A and E.
• In possession of many antioxidant properties. Antioxidants deactivate free radicals allowing us to live longer, overcome illness, and maintain more acute mental and muscular faculties.
• Available in different varieties, which fruit all year around.
• Pressable into a powerful oil, usable in a limitless number of ways all year around. Able to soothe the mucous membranes with its oil.

In addition to all this, olives have the greatest propensity of any fruit to dissolve toxic mucus in the system!