ABOUT US
AL SHAM, for food industries founded in 1998 in Syria, till we expanded to Egypt in 2013 to build our massive factory for manufacturing olive and pickle products : [Italian line oxidizing olive, Spanish olive grading by size, Spanish line for olive slicing, ]
Alsham Trade Mark
Geen olives preparation methods Spanish styleIMG 1254 Green Olives are harvested by hand, so as to avoid injuries to the fruit; once collected they receive a short alkaline treatment to neutralize the bitter oleuropeine acid from the unripe fruit and then they are put into brine where a slow natural lactic fermentation (from 2 to 3 months) occurs and the bitterness of the fruit is mostly eliminated; finally they are desalted and prepared in our special way delivering a unique, delicious, nutritive and healthy product in different types of package according to the customer's request. (2) Water /salt style ( Egyptian traditional method ) Green Olives are harvested by hand, so as to avoid injuries to the fruit; once collected they are treated by saline solution at certain concentration (10-12% NaCL) And saved in our stores for 3-4 months until suitable for oxidation process
* Green olives size The size of the green olives differ from type to other and they start from 81 piece in kg up to 400/kg as the following 81-100/kg 101-120/kg 121-140/kg ………………….etc,
• Natural Black Olives are harvested in winter, once naturally ripe from the tree which delivers the most healthy product; once collected, they are put into brine where a slow natural lactic fermentation (from 2 to 4 months) occurs and the bitterness of the fruit is mostly eliminated; finally they are desalted and prepared in our special way delivering a unique, delicious, nutritive and healthy product.
Ripe Oxidized Black Olives Ripe Oxidized black olives (California style ) They are not naturally ripe and their colour -intensely black- comes from an industrial oxidation process where typically green olives are subject to strong alkaline treatments and exposed to iron salts, then packed in specific tins such as A10 & A12 tins then be sterilized in autoclave. Ripe black olives may be : (a) whole black olives (b) sliced black olives (c) pitted black olives
Pickles is one of our products as we prepare pickled vegetables in our special way delivering a unique, delicious, nutritive and healthy product . Pickles as a final product has two different styles of packaging as it can be packed with one type on the pakage and it can be packed with the mixed pickles style as different types of vegetables are mixed with specific percentage on the package according to customers' request .
