Although table olives can be prepared for consumption in many different ways, Spanish-style preparation of green olives is
one of the three most commercially important worldwide, along with natural black olives and oxidised black olives (Garrido
Fernández et al., 1995; Sánchez et al., 2006; Rejano et al., 2010), representing 60% of the world production (Botta and Cocolin, 2012).