sansa (di olio)

/SAHN-sah/
[Italian]

When olives are crushed and milled there is a greasy, messy residue of stones called the sansa. It produces "olio di sansa" which, after treatment with some kind of acid, also counts as poor grade olive oil which may be mixed with some of the poorer cooking oils. And the final, totally squeezed and crushed remnants can be used as fertiliser.

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