News — adulterated oil

 Who can we trust?  Disappointed yet again, in those who should know better. Knowing what to look for on a bottle of olive oil should not be complicated.  We have recently had yet another very vague label come to our attention.  There are names that we should be able to trust, in the world of 'good, fresh, gourmet', etc, and we want to honor those who offer an honest product. It is a challenge.  Our job is to not only to provide fresh, high quality products, but to help customers understand what to look for when they are not able...

* By definition, any olive oil that has had seed oil or olive pomace oil added to it isn’t extra virgin.  Most adulterated oils typically have relatively low percentages of non-olive oils in them, as the greater the dilution with seed oil, the easier the fraud is to detect.  Clever fraudsters will just add enough ‘other stuff’ so as to just make it difficult for authorities to definitively say that “yes this oil is fraudulent” without having to resort to expensive sophisticated testing and lengthy court cases. An adulterated olive oil that contains 90% extra virgin olive oil and 10%...

  With all the buzz in the news about bad and fake olive oil,  It came to my attention that a 'copy cat'  tasting bar had a Facebook post about  Extra Virgin Olive Oil chemistry. Specifically DAGS and PPP's.  The post pointed out that the IOC (International Olive Council) does not recognize these tests.  Of course they don't!  Why?  Because the folks they do business with, are awash in bad oil!!  If they allowed these tests to be part of the requirements for Extra Virgin Olive Oil , all that oil that is warehoused in commercial holding tanks waiting to...