What We Can Learn From the Olive part 2

Several weeks ago at my Wellness Counts class I learned some interesting facts about olives. The Dietitian shared about a time in her life when she lived in Italy and had an olive tree. She told us you can not just pick an olive from the tree and eat it. This was news to me. Read below how Lysa TerKeurst explains the process that an olive has to undergo in order to be useful for food. 

The Crushing Times Are Processing Times 

"Another thing to consider about the olive tree is how naturally bitter the olive is and what it must go through to be useful. If you were to prick an olive from the tree and try to eat it, its bitterness would make you sick. 

For the olive to be edible, it has to go through a lengthy process, which includes.....

washing, 

breaking, 

soaking,

sometimes salting, 

and waiting. 

It is a lengthy process to be cured of bitterness and prepared for usefulness. If we are to escape the natural bitterness of the human hear, we have to go through a long process as well...the process of being cured."

I will be adding a link to each of the prior posts in this series here as I can: 

Part 1