In Italy, fused oils are known as “Agrumato oils”. Fused oils offer a combination of flavors in the truest sense and are created by crushing ripe olives along with their flavor counterpart. This is called the Agrumato Method. To create “fused oil”, makers mechanically press the ripe olives along with the produce. Whole ripe olives along with the fresh produce of choice are manufactured simultaneously. Their oils combine during mixing which fuses them together. This results in an intense flavor; More of the actual produce is still within the product.
Examples of plants that can contribute are chilies, herbs, or citrus fruits. The extraction of these oils married with that of ripe olives yields a product with a rich, intense flavor profile. Lemon fused olive oil, for example, can be used when baking sweets like biscotti, cake, granola, and cookies.
