Mezzetta Pitted Castelvetrano Italian Green Olives, 8 oz

You can make these taste like expensive olives from an olive bar. Get some sunflower oil. Drain the liquid from these olives, and then replace it with the sunflower oil. Ta-da, tastes just like olive bar olives, especially after it sits for a couple of hours. I discovered this years ago (pre-pandemic) when an enterprising Amazon shopper kindly substituted these when the olive bar olives were out of stock. This was many years ago, before Amazon came up the the idea of letting you pick your substitution. I’m so very grateful to that shopper.

These are the best! I order them on repeat!

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My favorite olives

They are tasty. A bit saltier than another brand that I have purchased locally.

Best olives you can buy. Only green olives I will purchase.

I bought these for some recipes we like that call for green olives because I don't like pimentos. Those horrible things are stuffed into most green olives. For 4 decades, I have sat with a seafood fork, picking the pimentos out of every olive before adding them to any dish I make.When these arrived, I was astounded by how beautiful they are. Talk about a picture-perfect olive, this is it! They were so pretty, I felt compelled to photograph them before opening the jar. Deep green, large and unblemished, with nothing stuffed into the space where the pit once was... THIS is the way God intended olives to be.

Heard about these olives on a cooking show and decided to try them. They are good, but I am unsure when I will use them other than as a snack.Flavor-wise, they taste like mild Manzanilla olive and a canned black olive combined. Relatively mild - the vinegar flavor is less than a green olive. There is a buttery aftertaste.In general, I think I prefer stronger olives. If you need a mild olive, something stronger than a canned black olive, this would be perfect