How Many Olives Are Needed to Make Olive Oil?

There are a huge number of olive varieties and these vary in their oil content.  The amount of oil that an olive produces is also influenced by the growing and climatic conditions and of course the milling process.

Generally it will take somewhere between 4 and 8 kg of olives to make a litre of cold pressed extra virgin olive oil and that will involve picking over 1000 olives.

hand picked olives waiting to go and be milled