Olive Oil Production and Olive Tree Reproductive Cycle Quiz

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What are the factors affecting fruit and oil qualities?

Soil type, water pH, and harvesting method
Olive tree age, leaf color, and irrigation frequency
Climate, cultivar choice, and farming practices (correct)
Pesticide use, fertilizer type, and tree height

Which part of the olive contains the highest oil content?

Epicarp (outer skin)
Mesocarp (containing 90-95% oil) (correct)
Endocarp (inner seed)
Stem and leaves

How is olive harvesting primarily carried out?

By employing animals to pick the olives
Manually (picking or combing) or mechanically (combing, aspirating, shaking) (correct)
By using drones for precision harvesting
By using chemical agents to accelerate fruit ripening

How is oil separation primarily carried out?

<p>By pressure (open press, continuous press), by centrifugation (three-phased with decanter and centrifugal separators or two-phased with decanter), and by percolation (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers