Ripe black olives cured with salt or in oil rather than brine, sold wrinkled and loose or oiled. Turkish labels call the dry cure sele.
Shelf-stable
What it is
How we read a bare request for this
There is no default cure. Salt/dry-cured and oil-cured are separate accepted branches; a generic request must clarify.
Where it is used
Breakfast tables and meze; the dry cure concentrates the flesh and gives the wrinkled skin.
Also called
dry black olives, dry-cured olives, oil-cured olives, salt-cured dry black olives, sele zeytin
The generic wording does not settle salt/dry-cured versus oil-cured black olives.
The generic dry-cured wording does not settle salt/dry-cured versus oil-cured black olives.
Sele names the salt/dry-cured branch.
Forms that matter
Oil-cured black olives
Dry-cured black olives packed or finished in oil.
Used for: Meze and dressings where the oil is part of the dish.
Not interchangeable with: brine-cured black olives; canned ripe black olives; Kalamata olives.
Salt-cured black olives (kuru sele)
Ripe black olives dry-cured in salt and left wrinkled.
Used for: Breakfast plates and meze.
Not interchangeable with: brine-cured black olives; canned ripe black olives; Kalamata olives.
Easily confused with
Olive paste — A crushed paste is a different product from a whole table olive and cannot be served or pitted as one.
Green table olives — Ripeness at picking and the cure are the whole distinction: unripe olives cured in brine or lye against ripe olives cured dry in salt or oil. Both are table olives and neither is the other.
Where to look
Recorded against Dry-cured black table olives itself, naming no particular form. A form you go on to choose may be sourced differently.
Known source within the stated scope; this is not a guarantee of current stock. A source relationship exists, but present stock has not been established. Evidence applies to this named location. Evidence observation date 2026-09-01 (Maximum Grocery).
Also: the evidence may be out of date for this kind of information
Evidence used for this claim
Maximum Grocery's own Square storefront product page. Maximum Grocery is the seller; Square Online is only the storefront host lists an item observed as “Marmara Birlik BLACK OLIVES 2XS DRIED SELE 400GR Pet”, supporting a store-specific source relationship for the concept. this authoring repair performed no retrieval. The observation supports catalog state only, never shelf stock.
Maximum Grocery · Sep 1, 2026 (observation date) · supports the relationship claim · source
Record last re-checked 2026-09-01. That is when we revisited
the record, not when the evidence above was observed.
Evidence & details
Why this source
Known source
What we know about stock
Not confirmed
Where this evidence applies
Store-specific
Typical availability
Unknown
Evidence date
2026-09-01 (observation date)
Known source within the stated scope; this is not a guarantee of current stock. A source relationship exists, but present stock has not been established. Evidence applies to this named location. Evidence observation date 2026-09-01 (Maximum Grocery).
Also: the evidence may be out of date for this kind of information
Evidence used for this claim
Maximum Grocery's own Square storefront product page. Maximum Grocery is the seller; Square Online is only the storefront host lists an item observed as “Marmara Birlik BLACK OLIVES 2XS DRIED SELE 400GR Pet”, supporting a store-specific source relationship for the concept. this authoring repair performed no retrieval. The observation supports catalog state only, never shelf stock.
Maximum Grocery · Sep 1, 2026 (observation date) · supports the relationship claim · source
Record last re-checked 2026-09-01. That is when we revisited
the record, not when the evidence above was observed.