Olive oil extraction

It is a process of extracting the oil from the olive drupes to use for food or for other uses.

A drupe is a part of a fruit which has a seed that is surrounded by an outer fleshy part.The oil in the olive is produced in the mesocrap cells and then it is stored in a particular type of vacuole which is named lipovacuole.

The extraction is a process in which the oil is separated from the other fruit contents, in this case the olive. The separation of the oil from the other oils is by chemical means and the separation of th oil from the solids is by physical means.

Olive oil presses or mills have been around for over 5.000 years or even more. The greeks were the frist people in history to start pressing olives to make oil.