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In reply to the discussion: Fake Olive Oil Companies Revealed Stop Buying These Brands Now [View all]Warpy
(111,800 posts)129. Not only that, definitions have changed over the years
In the years of hand or animal driven presses, "Extra Virgin" was from the first pressing, with several other grades from there. Now 99% of oil is factory produced from olives from multiple areas around the Mediterranean. Nearly all oil is expelled by rollers and it's all labeled "extra virgin" since it's the one and only pressing, combining several of the old grades. What is left over at the end is chemically treated to produce the pale yellow, "user friendly" stuff that people buy to get the benefits but not the taste.
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I just checked some Cal. Oilve oil at an online store, the harvest date is over a year old.
dixiegrrrrl
Jan 2017
#59
Kirkland??? But I don't need a 50 gallon drum since I stopped hosting orgies
NightWatcher
Jan 2017
#5
Reason #4581 that California is wonderful. More to come over the next 4 years...
Crash2Parties
Jan 2017
#53
My friend is from Corning, California, which bills itself as the world olive capital.
NBachers
Jan 2017
#60
I was joking. Look at the logo - it was the basis of wealth and cover business for Vito Corleone
underpants
Jan 2017
#20
while tests carried out on olive oil between 2008 and 2010 revealed that many store-vended oils did
Kolesar
Jan 2017
#12
There was no study to see if other oils were being substituted into the olive oil
Kolesar
Jan 2017
#24
I've got a full bottle of Bertolli to use up. Thanks for the info. It will be the last.
Vinca
Jan 2017
#32
The label extra virgin implies a quality standard not there so fake works for me
George Eliot
Jan 2017
#115
I Have to say that something familiar, like Pompeiann you can see it's not quality , but there are
lunasun
Jan 2017
#34
I thought Pompeian admitted to using a mix of different country of origin OLIVE oils years ago
Freethinker65
Jan 2017
#43
The majority of good olive oil is produced in Greece, but purchased in bulk, then bottled
Nitram
Jan 2017
#38
It is SNOPES that is being "fake." The articles all make clear it is the label "Extra Virgin" that
WinkyDink
Jan 2017
#41
The first sentence of the linked article claims it's about not being olive oil at all
muriel_volestrangler
Jan 2017
#114
I buy California Olive Ranch locally, but this olive oil is amazing (and pricey, but amazing):
phylny
Jan 2017
#58
Thanks! I read labels and I got California Olive Ranch last time I bought olive oil.
50 Shades Of Blue
Jan 2017
#126
Thanks. We need someone to do this for honey, as well. Loads of hfcs and pesticides involved there.
Dark n Stormy Knight
Jan 2017
#132