Are black olives high nutritious food?

Olives are full of fat - one of their main uses is getting pressed for olive oil. But, on the bright side, the fat in olives, like that of most fruits and vegetables, is unsaturated. So, although olives are high in calories gram-for-gram, the fat is much less likely to cause high cholesterol or heart disease than, say, margarine.

My weakness is a can of cashews. I’m not sure where they all go, but I can tear into a pretty decent size can, look down at it 5 minutes later, and realize I’ve sucked down 3/4 of it. (Naturally, cashews are also ridiculously high in fat/calories. Why can’t the really nutritious foods be that good?)

Another thing to watch out for when eating olives is the sodium. An ounce will have something along the lines of 250 mg - most nutrition experts recommend keeping your sodium intake at or below 240 mg/day. (I’d sit down before you recheck the label to see how many ounces are in your can of olives.)

Seriously, though, if you’re reading labels (always an excellent thing - I’m continuously having to edit my preconceived notions about which foods are nutritious and which aren’t) you should check out this website. I discovered it by accident one day, but not only does it give amazingly complete information and a snazzy search engine, it also lets you plug your recipes into it to calculate the nutritional information for your own cooking.