Most olive oil is not olive oil.
Most people also don’t know this fact.
80% of what is on store shelves posing as olive oil is actually seed oil. nostr:note10a5xgr0324f6cx92d4rycsw2frhflg454dhxlhhmme90u4unw40qzzptnr
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Costco Extra Virgin Olive Oil is 100% pure
they just need to package it in glass bottles
Best to cook with beef tallow or ghee
The uk is a hell hole but we do at least get really olive oil, I had to check
Sorry to break your bubble but all IS lost in the UK, as that is not extra virgin olive oil.
The label says so!
it's second press olive oil cut with a bit of extra virgen first cold press.
EVOO would be plastered all over the label if it were so,, but it isn't.
Cold press is also a minefield as it includes from room temperature mid 20's, the average bona fide temp in the better mills, up to 60c.
Higher the temperature the higher the yield. It's the first question of the season when you look for places to press.
I believe the mills do between 3 and 5 pressings. Cold press, a second hotter pressing IE mostly your oil - and then various lantern oils.
Just have to buy direct from growers and not from a supermarket, at least not in a supermarket outside olive country.
Better than canola oil I hope!!! Need to up the quality!!!!
Sad but true! And there are two prerequisites for a proper & healthy olive oil:
(1) it must be 100% extra virgin olive oil and
(2) it must have been harvested by mechanical extraction methods only.
If there is not a single location you can track the product to, it’s not olive oil.
Food companies taking advantage of people who are too lazy to read labels carefully that's what this is and then people get sick from using this product
Mediterranean Canola eh? 😂
It’s certainly easier in the UK as there is less of this fuckery. But then you learn that lots of olive oil is fake and cut with seed oil by gangs in Spain/italy etc. so you can’t then even trust the actual EV Olive oils. The single origin ones are almost as much as a mortgage payment, maybe this is the price of the real deal but then I just see lard in a shitty pack for a 70p per pack and it’s a no brainer. The good stuff is actually the cheapest!! Beef tallow is around £1 a pack. Proper butter is £3, evOlive oil is around £6for the same amount. Just stick to the lard and tallow. Happy days
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You should be reading the labels of everything you both put IN your body, as well as ON your body. 🫡 Most of everything that is commercially produced is pure poison.
sad but true.
The book “Extra Virginity” has a lots to say on the subject. It’s more interesting than you think.
Tldr: there is basically no regulation of what you can call extra virgin olive oil.
look for bottles that state that the oil is processed and bottled WHERE it is produced.
If it gets put on a truck (or worse, a boat.) it’s almost certainly cut in transit.
https://groveandvine.com/membership/
this dude follows harvest seasons around the world and does exactly this.
Sends you a fresh bottle every 3 months.
i get the big bottles because my fam consumes a shit ton of olive oil.
ironically the walmart brand is usually the cheapest and is 100% olive oil
Buy Selo Olive Oil. Direct to consumer and the owner is a bitcoiner
At least this brand tells you. Most of them are cut with seed oils and they don’t tell you on the back.
Best to buy from small American producers.
In America, yes. In Europe is against the law to say “extra virgin olive oil” and sell snake oil instead. This is big problem for consumers in America: everything is fake, everything is a lie. And I’m not advocating for regulation, but these practices need to end.
You also have to look at country of origin.
It should only have one country not multiple countries on it.
If it has multiple countries it can come from it means they are doing various chemical processes that are not healthy.
To be really sure it's a good oil, you can buy the ones with the AOP label (DOP in Italy). This guarantees that the oil is made in a region using a cold process, with superior olive quality from their area.
This label is also on wines, cheese, butter, some meats and chicken.
Maybe it's hard to find and expensive if you are in America, most of theses products are from France, Italy and Spain. Some people say products in Spain have more pesticides, i didn't check myself if it's true.. 
Can't afford pesticides around here.
Most locals are pretty hands off for super nasty treatments but eco copper sulphate is used . Eco, Jesus!
They aren't shy with synthetic fertiliser when not sourcing local manure but other than that this area has very good olive oil.
Nothing out of a packet goes on our trees. They are healthy enough living with groundcover and the chippings from pruning time. Beyond eco, but without the damned certificate from the eco mafia you can't sell eco or bio labelled olive oil.
Funnily enough I couldn't even sell my olive oil yesterday. They thought 8€ a litre was too much. Ho ho, let them eat euros then!
You are in Spain ? Which region
You can test a glass of it by putting it in the fridge.
> Extra virgin olive oil solidifies in the fridge after a few hours due to its high monounsaturated fat content.
> Seed oils remain mostly liquid because they have more polyunsaturated fats.
So even if the extra virgin olive oil contains any seed oils it will struggle to solidify.
Science!
Most virgins are also not virgins…
Come to Europe. Here olive oil is made of… Olives.
It’s only in America the food is 98% messed up.
not true buddy … eu will soon mess with the ingredients … but for now I enjoy my olive oil 🫂
Holy F!
What’s your go-to olive oil in the US?
Liquid gold just like digital gold, attracts scammers but also connoisseurs. 🫒
#facts #EVOO
https://greekcitytimes.com/2021/06/18/olive-oil-liquid-gold/
That is why California olive council is pushing so hard for testing. There is a lot of crap out there. I was once told by a Chilean producer he sold his oil to the USA by selling to a European company who just labeled it Italian and then sends it to the USA.
USA is full of this crap. In Europe we have pretty stringent consumer protections in comparison.
read labels like smart and healthy people do
I have pretty much quit consuming all refined oils, so olive oil is out of the picture, too.
Aramco Oil involved
My mom always said, it’s most likely not 100% unless you know the guy pressing it
Still garbage even if it’s 100%. People in the comments are retards. What is this, YouTube or Reddit?