Trader Joe's sells fake olive oil

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Where can you buy real olive oil?

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Anonymous wrote:Where can you buy real olive oil?

This is an interesting article that covers fake olive oil and goes into where to buy at the end
https://www.forbes.com/sites/larryolmsted/2016/09/30/its-extra-virgin-olive-oil-day-is-your-evoo-real-or-fake/

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NP here: so it's fake because it's olive oil mixed with another oil like soybean?

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This is pretty horrifying. I didn't even realize this was something we had to worry about

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Anonymous wrote:Just figured I should let you guys know so you don't waste money on a big jug like me.

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.

No it's actually not the same at all, it's completely different. You're confused.

So what is it made of?

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?

Having issues with reading? It said its NOT about olive vs non-olive - it IS about extra virgin vs not extra virgin.

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Anonymous wrote:NP here: so it's fake because it's olive oil mixed with another oil like soybean?

No. Its fake because it says its extra virgin (from the first pressing, with the most intense flavor) and it actually includes oil from less flavorful later pressings of the olives.

Someone misunderstood that (or deliberately lied about it) and its gone viral.

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Anonymous wrote:Where can you buy real olive oil?

This is an interesting article that covers fake olive oil and goes into where to buy at the end
https://www.forbes.com/sites/larryolmsted/2016/09/30/its-extra-virgin-olive-oil-day-is-your-evoo-real-or-fake/

Wow. How is this legal?

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Anonymous wrote: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?

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.

+100. How many times are we going to tolerate poisoning of food products coming out of China? This is ridiculous.

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Anonymous wrote:NP here: so it's fake because it's olive oil mixed with another oil like soybean?

No. Its fake because it says its extra virgin (from the first pressing, with the most intense flavor) and it actually includes oil from less flavorful later pressings of the olives.

Someone misunderstood that (or deliberately lied about it) and its gone viral.

No, it's fake because of a variety of reasons, one of the most prevalent being mixed with other oils. Read the article!!

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Anonymous wrote:NP here: so it's fake because it's olive oil mixed with another oil like soybean?

No. Its fake because it says its extra virgin (from the first pressing, with the most intense flavor) and it actually includes oil from less flavorful later pressings of the olives.

Someone misunderstood that (or deliberately lied about it) and its gone viral.

No, it's fake because of a variety of reasons, one of the most prevalent being mixed with other oils. Read the article!!

The article almost entirely discusses mislabelling the source and quality of product that is still entirely olive oil. There are only two sentences that discuss the potential risk of other oils being added but it does not provide any stats or actual evidence of such occurrences.

Also, that article is terribly written. The entire thing is clearly a marketing piece for the author's book and is a jumbled mess.

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Anonymous wrote:NP here: so it's fake because it's olive oil mixed with another oil like soybean?

No. Its fake because it says its extra virgin (from the first pressing, with the most intense flavor) and it actually includes oil from less flavorful later pressings of the olives.

Someone misunderstood that (or deliberately lied about it) and its gone viral.

No, it's fake because of a variety of reasons, one of the most prevalent being mixed with other oils. Read the article!!

The article almost entirely discusses mislabelling the source and quality of product that is still entirely olive oil. There are only two sentences that discuss the potential risk of other oils being added but it does not provide any stats or actual evidence of such occurrences.

Also, that article is terribly written. The entire thing is clearly a marketing piece for the author's book and is a jumbled mess.

Did you not pass third grade?

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I think we have someone from the olive oil lobby here. Either that or someone who is just very, very confused.

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Anonymous wrote:What do you mean fake? Not made from olives? Not extra virgin? From olives shipped all over?

Made of cheap oils that don't have the health benefits of olive oil.

How is that possible -- the ingredients are lies??

Yes actually. Honey also has this issue. They remove all the pollen and good things from honey to distort it's origin.


Thanks China.

These kind of lies are egregious. I don't care about them redesigning the calorie label- I want to know the food I think I'm eating- I'm actually eating!

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Anonymous wrote:NP here: so it's fake because it's olive oil mixed with another oil like soybean?

No. Its fake because it says its extra virgin (from the first pressing, with the most intense flavor) and it actually includes oil from less flavorful later pressings of the olives.

Someone misunderstood that (or deliberately lied about it) and its gone viral.

No, it's fake because of a variety of reasons, one of the most prevalent being mixed with other oils. Read the article!!

I was the NP. I was reading and posting when the article was posted so I only read it after my post.

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Anonymous wrote:NP here: so it's fake because it's olive oil mixed with another oil like soybean?

No. Its fake because it says its extra virgin (from the first pressing, with the most intense flavor) and it actually includes oil from less flavorful later pressings of the olives.

Someone misunderstood that (or deliberately lied about it) and its gone viral.

No, it's fake because of a variety of reasons, one of the most prevalent being mixed with other oils. Read the article!!

The article almost entirely discusses mislabelling the source and quality of product that is still entirely olive oil. There are only two sentences that discuss the potential risk of other oils being added but it does not provide any stats or actual evidence of such occurrences.

Also, that article is terribly written. The entire thing is clearly a marketing piece for the author's book and is a jumbled mess.

Did you not pass third grade?

Oops, you got me. I can't comprehend anything beyond Roald Dahl books and Highlights magazines.