BONCHE - Olive (30g)

The olive is considered the oldest cultivated plant, it was used around the 4th century BC. BC. Its homeland is considered to be Africa - the Mediterranean coast. Oliva was revered in Ancient Greece, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Rome, she was given divine significance, her history is covered with myths and legends. According to one of them, thanks to the olive, the goddess of knowledge, Athena, won the dispute for primacy with Poseidon by offering olive oil as a gift to people, not salty sea water. It is also believed that the club of Hercules was made of an olive tree, and the winners of the first Olympic Games were awarded olive wreaths. When the whole earth was covered with water, a dove brought an olive branch to Noah. The olive is considered a symbol of hope, fertility, life itself.

Olive oil is valued for its unique properties of oil, excellent both in taste and useful characteristics. The olive is not consumed raw, it is bitter, first it is kept in a saline solution - it is preserved. It is loved for its pleasant enveloping oiliness, with a slight bitterness and even sharpness, the aroma of plantations warmed by the sun with a century of history.