eli5 What’s the difference between oil and juice?

Question

You squeeze olives and get oil but if you squeeze an orange you get juice.
What sets oil and juice apart? Why can’t you get olive juice and orange oil?

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Answer 1

If you are asking if you can make orange oil or olive juice then yes technically you can. The issue is that oranges only have 0.12% fat so you would need to go through a lot of orange juice to extract enough oils to make anything usable. On the other hand olives are about 15% fat which probably needs to be filtered out before it is drinkable as juice.