Pingyang Olives

Pingyang Olives

　　　Product Name: Pingyang Olives

　　Place of Origin: Wenzhou

　　Product Features: Attractive appearance, excellent quality, fragrant, minimal residue, crisp texture, no astringency, and a clean, mellow aftertaste

　　Product Introduction: The cultivation of Pingyang Olives has a long history. These olives are attractive in appearance, excellent in quality, fragrant, have minimal residue, a crisp texture, no astringency, and a clean, mellow aftertaste. Olive trees have a long fruit-bearing period, offer high economic returns, are easy to manage, and are highly favored by fruit farmers.

　　Tangchuan Olives are rich in calcium and vitamin C, with 204 mg of calcium and 15–100 mg of vitamin C per 100 grams of flesh. They help quench thirst, stimulate appetite, aid digestion, soothe sore throats, relieve diarrhea, detoxify fish toxins, and alleviate alcohol intoxication.

　　Our county’s Tangchuan Olives come in a wide variety. Currently, there are eight types: large olive, small olive, clove olive, long olive, round olive, bitter sage, oily olive, and pointed olive. There are also 15 varieties, including bitter olive, oily olive, yellow-skinned clove, grape clove, old yellow fragrance, green-skinned long olive, green-skinned round olive, large olive, egg olive, pine olive, small olive, pointed olive, brown olive, yellow-skinned round olive, and yellow-skinned long olive. Among these, the old yellow fragrance and clove olive from Tangchuan are particularly renowned for their long-standing fame as the best fresh-eating varieties, offering a refreshing, fragrant taste with a sweet aftertaste. The large olive, long olive, and round olive are more suitable for processing into a variety of uniquely flavored delicacies, which are popular both domestically and internationally.

　　Product History: The Tangchuan Olive planting area spans over 1,500 acres, with an annual output of 150 tons and a total output value of 1.5 million yuan.