Category which covers good quality olives with a suitable degree of ripeness and endowed with the characteristics specific to the variety and trade preparation. Providing the overall favourable aspect or individual organoleptic characteristics of each fruit is not affected, they may have slight colour, shape, flesh-firmness or skin defects.
Olive Sector Statistics – October 2025
MADRID, SPAIN / 24.10.2025
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