Greece · Megara, Attica Dual-purpose Intensity not published

Megaritiki

also called Megareitiki, Perachoritiki, Athinaiki, Elia Megaron

The chemical outlier among widespread Greek oil varieties — markedly lower in oleic acid and higher in palmitic than Koroneiki or Konservolia. Its oils do not simply taste less intense; they age differently.

Dual-purposeprimary use of the fruit

Not publishedtypical polyphenol band

Fills when the library holds an oilcomputed, not authored

Olive grove in Megara, Attica — a generated illustration, not a photograph of a specific grove

Reference card

Also called	Megareitiki, Perachoritiki, Athinaiki, Elia Megaron
Main regions	Attica, Boeotia, Corinthia, Achaia; also northern Greece
Purpose	Dual-purpose — oil and green cracked table olives
Oleic acid	~65.8% — with 15.5% palmitic
Oil yield	~25%, up to ~30% under intensive cultivation
Harvest	Not published
Notable tree	The ~2,500-year-old "Olive of Orsa" on Salamis is of this variety

Shelf stability is the published Rancimat induction time where one exists. It is measured per variety; smoke point is not, so it is not listed.

In the grove

Grove — placeholder

Fruit at harvest — placeholder

Aroma and flavour descriptors

1Harmonious sweet fruity
2Complex aroma
3Balanced

Indicative intensities on a 10-point scale from a Greek specialist publication — fruitiness 5.0–5.5, bitterness 4.0–4.5, pungency 4.5–5.0. Not a certified IOC panel median.

Ordered by how often each recurs in the published varietal literature, not by measured intensity. Our panel has not scored a monovarietal Megaritiki oil, and no sensory panel data for it is published. 40 of the 40 varieties here read the same way.

Oils in the library No Megaritiki oils reviewed yet

This shelf fills when the panel scores an oil made from this variety. 19 of the 40 varieties here are in the same state today.

Megaritiki against the other Greece varieties

Open in compare

Variety	Origin region	Used for	Polyphenols	Shelf stability
Koroneiki	Koroni, Messinia, Peloponnese	Oil	Around the Greek mean; Cretan surveys 138–441 mg/kg	Not published
Kalamon	Messinia, southern Peloponnese	Dual-purpose	Not published	Not published
Manaki	Central Greece and the northeastern Peloponnese	Dual-purpose	Not published	Not published
Tsounati	Western Crete and the southern Peloponnese	Dual-purpose	173–641 mg/kg	Not published
Megaritiki	Megara, Attica	Dual-purpose	Not published	Not published
Konservolia	Amfissa and Fthiotida, central Greece	Dual-purpose	Not published	Not published
Chalkidiki	Chalkidiki, Central Macedonia	Dual-purpose	290–606 mg/kg	Up to 36 h Rancimat in early-harvest oil

Sources

Every figure on this page carries a source. Where we could not find one we say so rather than estimating. Corrections are welcome and credited.

Map · Megara, Attica

Megara, Attica · 38.0° N, 23.3° E