Archaeological finds indicate that Syria is one of the oldest countries in the world in olive cultivation and age, where stone presses still exist so far in more than one archaeological site in northern and southern Syria.
The number of olive trees in Syria is approximately 90 million, according to the Syrian Ministry of Agriculture.
Many researchers in this field have unanimously agreed on the great benefits of olive oil, mainly represented in the association of olive oil with reducing the incidence of high cholesterol, as it was noted in people who consume good quantities of olive oil that the percentage of cholesterol is low in the blood and thus led to the reduction of arteriosclerosis, which In turn, it has a great relationship in reducing heart disease and stroke. .
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In addition, olive oil has a direct relationship to lowering blood pressure, as evidenced by one of the research conducted on a number of patients with high blood pressure who exchange medications to reduce it.
These facts show that olive oil contains a good percentage of vitamin E, which is known as an antioxidant and thus encapsulates and binds oxidants and rid the body of them. It was noted that consuming one tablespoon of olive oil daily can reduce the risk of breast cancer by more than 40%.
Research has also revealed that olive oil has an effect in reducing skin cancers.
Syrian olive oil is characterized by high efficiency and quality because it contains volatile oils whose quality exceeds all Mediterranean oils, and the percentage of peroxide in it ranges between 5 and 10 mm equivalent, and it is within the internationally approved ratio, which reaches up to 20 mm equivalent, and its acidity does not exceed 5.1 mm equivalent percent, bearing in mind that the permissible percentage reaches 5.3 mm equivalent, which if .