Finally a ripe canned olive with all the delicious ripe flavor you would expect from the Santa Barbara Olive Co., Inc.. We even greatly reduced the salt content without taking away the delicious flavor. These olives are handpicked and inspected for superior quality. The olives in this pack are grown and processed using an age-old method handed down through many generations. Santa Barbara Olive Co., Inc. is owned and operated by a 5th and 6th generation Santa Barbara family.