Nutrition and health

Table olives are a nutritional and healthy food:

• Nutritional features of table olives:
  • Lipids: healthy fat content.
  • Carbohydrates: low in content
  • Proteins: low content, with all the essential amino acids.
  • Fiber: Source of dietary fibre (helps proper functioning of the digestive system and prevents colon cancer).
  • Vitamins: rich in vitamins A and E (compounds that are important in the body’s mechanisms for protecting against oxidation).
  • Minerals: Sodium (recommended for people who do physical exercise), calcium (in about the same concentration as in milk), iron and magnesium (prevents formation of kidney stones and favours the action of glands, enzymes and white blood cells).
  • Polyphenols: table olives are a major source of polyphenols.
• Table olives offer all the virtues of olive oil, which comes from olives.
• Experts have determined that a proper amount is 25 grams of olives per day (around 7 olives daily), which would take the place of half a portion of fat (one portion of fat = 1 spoonful of olive oil). So:

OLIVES: TREAT YOURSELF TO SEVEN EACH DAY

• 25 Grams of olives contain:
• 45 kilocalories.
• 0 grams of carbohydrates
• 0.25 grams of protein
• 5.5 grams of fat
• 0.65 grams of fiber
• 0.3 grams of sodium

Chart comparing the caloric content of 25 g. of various foods: