Why are olives bitter?

The bitter taste of olive comes from its special chemical components, such as oleuropein, flavonoids and polyphenols, among which the content of flavonoids is higher than other foods.

The role of olives:

(1) Olive pulp is rich in nutrition, and fresh food is good for health, especially it contains more calcium, which is helpful for children's bone development. Fresh olives have the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, resolving phlegm and promoting digestion, and can relieve gas poisoning, alcoholism and fish and crab poisoning. Olives have the effect of clearing away lung-heat and detoxifying.

(2) Olive has the functions of clearing away lung heat, relieving sore throat, promoting fluid production and detoxifying, and can treat sore throat, polydipsia and chronic cough.

(3) Sore throat: raw olive 10, raw radish 200g. Wash and slice radish, and fry tea with olives. Or take raw olive pulp, each time 1 tablet, multiple times a day.

(4) Hot and thirsty: 6 raw olives. Remove the core, mash the pulp, add 50g of sugar, and add water for decoction 1 time.

(5) Chronic cough: 6 raw olives. Remove the core, mash the pulp, add a proper amount of rock sugar, and stew with water for half an hour before eating.

(6) Restlessness of fetal movement: 10 ~ 15 olives, pitted, stewed with pork belly, eating meat and drinking soup twice a week. Treat pregnant women with restless fetal movement, thirst and upset.