Trader Joe's sells fake olive oil
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Anonymous
| So what you're saying is that the free markets for olive oil has failed since consumers don't know a good product from bad and keep buying the cheap fake stuff. Clearly he FDA is not doing their job either since they are letting a deceptively labeled product be imported and stocked on the shelves. So what's the solution? Rogue olive oil tasters and an expose on 60 minutes? |
Anonymous
FDA doesn't have the funding to do this. I think the solution is to ban food imports from China. I can't trust the safety of any food product from China and I hate that they aren't even labeled with origin. |
Anonymous
| Yeah, FDA should require labeling country of Origen for all food products. I also would avoid buying any food from china or other countries with similarly poor approach to food safety. |
Anonymous
Oh geez. We have plenty of good honey in this country. Buying honey is iffy if you're buying honey in China. It's not hard to get good honey here in the US. Also, buy California olive oil if you want good olive oil. It's expensive, and not fake. |
Anonymous
You're wrong. Honey is the 3rd most faked food. I wouldn't trust it if it's from a grocery store. I only trust the honey I buy from farmers (I want the stuff with pollen for my allergies). http://nationalpost.com/life/food/for-the-love-of-real-food-five-of-the-most-commonly-faked-foods-and-how-to-avoid-them "Honey is commonly thinned with less expensive, but still edible, sweeteners – beet sugar, high-fructose corn syrup and cane sugar have all been used in the past – as the FDA told USA Today. “That’s not the case with chloramphenicol, a powerful antibiotic that can lead to a potentially fatal bone marrow disorder, the reason the drug is not approved for food use in the United States. But it is a common contaminant in adulterated Chinese honey,” Olmsted writes." |
Anonymous
It's still OLIVE OIL, just that they don't meet the criteria for extra virgin. It's not fake, which implies that it's not olive oil, but something else. It's just a different category of olive oil. It's as if I bought a carton of eggs that I thought were extra large, but they turned out to be just large. They're not fake eggs. |
Anonymous
Not all California olive oil is real either. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
No it's actually not the same at all, it's completely different. You're confused. |
Anonymous
So what is it made of? |
Anonymous
I think the FDA needs to make better rules about food labeling. Another issue is that a ton of oil is grown in other (cheaper) places around Europe, then shipped to Italy for packing... and then "Real Italian Oil". That's a separate issue from the not being Olive Oil, which is a huge health concern, as tons of people in the U.S. are doing their best to eat healthy by buying what they think is olive oil, when it's a totally different, separate oil with none of the health benefits. Would you pour Crisco over your salad? No? Then you probably don't want to pay extra for olive oil only to have it be a different, fraudulent oil. Food fraud is out of control in this country. |
Anonymous
NP and I'm still confused as to why it's "fake." What makes it fake? |
Anonymous
It varies. "Tests did not show that 69% of the olive oil sold in the U.S. is made wholly or primarily from something other than olives." So this is not an issue about being "extra virgin" or not. Why not google something before giving your opinion so authoritatively? |
Anonymous
It's diluted with a cheap soybean or seed oil or mixed with lower-grade olive oil that's been chemically refined. |