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Raw: being in or nearly in the natural state : not processed or purified. So, cutting and treating them with water, salt, and oil is not raw....

• coldtea 7y ago
  Well, it's not cooked either and certainly it's not "oil", which the article presents as the only tolerable alternative, so there's that.
  • rowanG077 7y ago
    The article does not present oil as the only tolerable alternative. Most of the article is about olives and not their oil.