Olive

Olea europaea · Vegetables

Olives are the fruit of the Olea europaea tree and a staple of Mediterranean cooking, providing monounsaturated fats and polyphenols. These plant compounds have been studied in laboratory research for their antioxidant activity. Eat table olives as a snack or in salads, tapenades and braises, and use their oil for dressing and cooking.

Polyols

SorbitolNot a source — upper-bound estimate

Source: Upper-bound estimate (Ciqual 2025)

What this means

This is olive's own sorbitol content, not a recipe amount. Sorbitol is a polyol — a type of sugar alcohol — calculated from two official food-composition databases, Germany's Bundeslebensmittelschlüssel (BLS 4.0) and the French Ciqual table. Recipes are evaluated separately against a 0.20 g threshold (a per-serving cutoff from Varney et al. 2017, Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, applied to one reference serving of the recipe) — an ingredient's own figure isn't directly comparable to that number, since a recipe combines several ingredients in different amounts. This describes the food, not a guarantee about how your body will respond to it.

Sugars

Per 100 g

Total fructoseAt most 0.1 g

Excess fructoseAt most 0.1 g

Source: Upper-bound estimate (Ciqual 2025)

What this means

These are olive's own fructose figures, not a recipe amount. Total fructose is how much fructose the food contains. Excess fructose is fructose minus glucose, counted only when positive, since glucose helps the body absorb fructose — it is the figure behind the "Low fructose" filter and the recipe figures. When measured, both come from two official food-composition databases, Germany's Bundeslebensmittelschlüssel (BLS 4.0) and the French Ciqual table. Recipes are evaluated separately against a 0.40 g threshold of excess fructose (a per-serving cutoff from Varney et al. 2017, Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, applied to one reference serving of the recipe) — an ingredient's own figure isn't directly comparable to that number, since a recipe combines several ingredients in different amounts. This describes the food, not a guarantee about how your body will respond to it.

Sources

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