Posted on 11/15/2015 11:19:04 AM PST by WhiskeyX
According to the book Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil, illicit manufacturers slap an Italian flag and the name of an imaginary producer on the label and dump this stuff on the US market, where consumers are easy pickings.
But consumers in the US aren’t the only victims. Studies done in Australia and New Zealand found that half of their Mediterranean imports were fake, too. Anywhere olive oil is in demand is a possible target.
How do you fake olive oil? Olive oil can be diluted with poor quality oils or sometimes there is no real olive oil at all. Cheap and unhealthy soy or canola oils are colored with industrial chlorophyll and flavored with artificial flavorings. Yum. [....]
(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
No Spartan?
That video is interesting and disturbing for someone who tries to keep up on nutrition. It makes me wonder if it would be better buy olives, cut them up, and add that to salads and sauces. They can’t fake olives.
Is there an actual BRAND NAME list we can use to make sure we have the real deal ..??
“I have a feeling you’re gonn’a make me pissed off at another faction of life I never considered until now ...”
Every so often the news media rediscovers the fact that certain so-called Italian and other European food and beverage products are fakes and counterfeits. I recall back in 1967-1968 I was learning how you had to avoid Chianti wines, Italian balsamic vinegars, olive oils, and Italian Parma hams because of the fakes. In particular, the Chianti wines bottled in those fancy bottles often with the basketry on the bottles were notorious for being adulterated with everything from low quality wines of uncertain origins to oxblood. Buyers of Chianti wines were cautioned to purchase only those with the neck labels signifying they were controlled by a consorzio as being true Chianti Classico. Like perennial plants, the corruption in these industries is discovered anew in the news articles from year to year for more than a half century.
“They can’t fake olives.”
LOL, actually they do fake olives. Olives fallen from the trees and onto the ground are rated as not fit for human consumption, yet these fallen olives normally used for industrial purposes such as lamp oils are often used to adulterate the tree picked olives as a means of cutting costs.
See Post 20
“No Spartan?”
I don’t know. There were some links to the original University of California Davis study reports online, but the links are now dead.
So what to do? Give up on olive oil? Do the healthy spreads, Smart Balance and Oilivio fulfill that need? Or is their olive oil fake, too?
“This Snopes article...”
Perhaps you are not aware that Snopes exists to invalidate any remnant of Conservative thought. I suspect Snopes can prove that YOU do not exist.
“You can test your oil at home.
The freezing point of EVOO is 39DegF.”
Unfortunately, the olive oil counterfeiters are sometimes crafting the fakes to fool the freeze testing. See:
Refrigeration is not reliable in detecting olive oil adulteration
http://olivecenter.ucdavis.edu/research/files/refrigerationisnotreliablefinal.pdf
How so? Canola and soy oil are unhealthy. I don't know about the cheap part because I don't buy them.
Is that the same one that says California Olive Ranch Extra Virgin Olive Oil sold in Walmart?
Looks like that might be a myth, at least according to some websites I went to (e.g. http://www.oliveoilsource.com/definition/freezing-point-olive-oil)
I finally found a good link to the UC Davis report.
Tests indicate that imported “extra virginâ€olive oil
often fails international and USDA standards
OLIVE
CENTER
July 2010
Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science
University of California, Davis
Frankel, E. N.; Mailer, R. J.; Shoemaker, C. F.; Wang, S. C.; Flynn, J. D.
http://olivecenter.ucdavis.edu/research/files/oliveoilfinal071410updated.pdf
I don’t see anything yet to indicate that the Spartan brand had been tested.
“So what to do? Give up on olive oil?”
UC Davis maintains a grove of olive trees, produces products from their olives, and maintains and olive industry research center. This research center has been used as a part of the quality assurance process for maintaining quality standards and reputation for California olive products such as the olive oils. Consequently, such quality controlled olive oils produced in California are tested and supposedly reliable in their labeling and quality. The same can be said for similar products from Texas.
“Do the healthy spreads, Smart Balance and Oilivio fulfill that need? Or is their olive oil fake, too?”
Good questions, are they?
what’s the brand and where do you buy it?
The Whole Foods brand is bad? Yikes!
Canola oil isn’t unhealthy.
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>> “He blew his credibility right there.” <<
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No, he reinforced his credibility.
Soy and Canola are extremely unhealthy.
What is the brand name, exactly?
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