Table olives have been explored as a vehicle for incorporating bacterial species with probiotic potential, in an effort to develop a new plant based functional food. In the last years the focus on table olive research has shifted from the spontaneous process controlled by the indigenous microbiota to inoculated fermentations with selected starter cultures of LAB with probiotic potential in order to transform a traditional agricultural commodity into a novel high added value functional food providing new perspectives for the table olive industry (Lavermicocca et al., 2005; De Bellis et al., 2010; Argyrietal.,2014;Blanaetal.,2014;Rodríguez-Gomezetal., 2014a). It needs to be noted however that the focus has been given on the production of probiotic table olives whereas there is little information on the survival of probiotic LAB strains on olive