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Coffee - Ground coffee may contain roasted and chopped barley, wheat, and soybeans. To reduce production costs, companies may even add ground wood.
100% pomegranate and cranberry juice. Yeah right. Look at the label and you will find it deleted with cheap apple, grape juice or even water.
Honey and Oil - as mentioned above.
Parmesan cheese - this cheese may contain about 10% of wooden shavings. A mixture of cheaper cheeses can also be presented as Parmesan cheese.
Sushi - this reddish slice on the roll is most likely not salmon. In most cases, when ordering sushi and rolls with a certain type of fish, you get a cheaper variant (sometimes even colored).
Rice!!! - it could be mixed with starch mixed with plastic and sprayed with flavoring.
Not since they changed from all CA olives several years ago.
This is a real issue. Many of us eat EVOO because it is supposed to be healthy. But many OOs are apparently cut with almond oil. And no gov’t. agency tests, or did last I heard.
I use OO from Costco, but have no knowledge if it is pure OO.
As another poster mentioned California Olive Ranch has their "Destination" series which has oil from other countries and their "Keto" blends which contain walnut or avocado oils. Their main products are still 100% California olive oil and that's marked on the bottle.
I mostly switched to coconut oil, then bought an All Clad 8" Nonstick that is the very last word in pans for my type of cooking...I don't do much true cooking but use the pan daily to pan fry various simple items like eggs, shrimp, sausage, beef, other protein.
= No more oil. For me, calories I don't need but I do have a chronic weight problem so I'm keeping an eye out.
This does not discount how delicious olive oil can be, preferably on Italian dishes or bread.
As another poster mentioned California Olive Ranch has their "Destination" series which has oil from other countries and their "Keto" blends which contain walnut or avocado oils. Their main products are still 100% California olive oil and that's marked on the bottle.
When they changed over, all the bottles where I bought food became “Destination” bottles. I have never seen any other. I’ll check again at my specialty food store.
This is why I ALWAYS buy high end olive oil because you can't trust the cheap crap. I typically buy from U.S.-based producers like California Olive Ranch. We need to support our farmers in this country and buy as locally as we can.
This is why I ALWAYS buy high end olive oil because you can't trust the cheap crap. I typically buy from U.S.-based producers like California Olive Ranch. We need to support our farmers in this country and buy as locally as we can.
Yeah, from the article I read several years ago, I don’t think price is a guarantee of getting what you pay for. The oil is blended in Europe, then shipped to US. The FDA, as I remember, does not check it for integrity of ingredients.
But many of us use EVOO because of its purported healthy nature. I dress my salads with it, exclusively. But I have no way of knowing if I am getting what I think I’m getting.
I sent this article to my MIL, who's a bit of a foodie, and here's what she said:
I had an olive oil tasting at my house when I came home from travel a little more than a year ago. I brought some fancy expensive oil from Greece. In the tasting it ranked near the lowest. The cheap Trader Joe's EVOO did much better. I just checked the TJ's bottle in my cupboard and it's a "Mediterranean mixture" but it does have a "Best By" date.
Take-away advice: Because olive oil is fragile, buy a small bottle each time. That's what I do.
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