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What is fustiness?

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Fusty is the aroma and taste of fer­mented olives. Think tape­nade. It’s a com­mon defect that usu­ally indi­cates that olives were left around too long before being milled.

For more quick answers to your olive oil ques­tions, ask Ollie — a bot devel­oped by the Olive Oil Times Education Lab that uses arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence to help peo­ple learn more about olive oil.

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