FAKE OLIVE OIL IS BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH; REAL OLIVE OIL IS GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH!
What Olive Oils to Buy… and Avoid
In the UC Davis study, these brands failed to meet extra-virgin olive oil standards:
- Bertolli
- Carapelli
- Colavita
- Filippo Berio
- Mazzola
- Mezzetta
- Newman’s Own
- Pompeian
- Rachel Ray
- Safeway
- Star
- Whole Foods
In the same study, these olive oils met the extra-virgin standards:
- Corto Olive
- California Olive Ranch
- Kirkland Organic
- Lucero (Ascolano)
- McEvoy Ranch Organic
'And you thought Halliburton was corrupt. Now check out that other oil industry — the olive oil industry. That business is among the most crooked, most rife with fraud of any in the food world. Bottom line: Everything you know about olive oil is wrong.
It’s apparently so bad, you can’t even be sure that you’re getting actual olive oil inside your bottle of olive oil. The surprising truth is laid bare in the book “Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil” by Tom Mueller, released this month.
The author, an American now living in Italy, spent months investigating the oil biz, which has had problems with corruption going back to the very first written mention of the foodstuff — a 24th-century B.C. cuneiform tablet that notes the king’s fraud squad was checking on olive mills.'
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