Extra Virgin Olive Oil’s Lost Virginity
Edible oils are often adulterated with inferior oils.
Olive oil’s most common adulterant is colza oil (rapeseed oil).
Over 600 people died in Spain in 1981 from an outbreak of toxic oil syndrome. It was caused by industrial colza oil sold as olive oil by street merchants.
Olive oil is routinely adulterated in Spain and Italy.
The world’s largest producers of olive oil are Spain, Italy, Syria, Tunisia, and Turkey (in that order).
Seven olive oil plants were shut down in 2008 for adding industrial chlorophyll to soybean and sunflower oils and labeling the bottles as “extra virgin olive oil.”
Industrial chlorophyll isn’t real chlorophyll. Chlorophyll can’t exist in a liquid state (something to think about when buying a bottle of liquid chlorophyll at a health food store).
Olive oil is also commonly adulterated with cottonseed, peanut, sesame, hazelnut, and poppy seed oils, and lard.
Olive oil is even adulterated with Vaseline (petroleum jelly).
Artificial color is added to hide these deceptions.
Beta carotene (made from coal tar) is sometimes added as a flavoring.
According to Chef Vito De Carolis …
“For looking for a good olive oil, first of all you have to have extra virgin olive oil. That’s the minimum. Then you have to TRUST the company.”
By the way, never heat olive oil above 200-250 degrees Fahrenheit.
Heating olive oil generates free radicals and … toxic fumes.
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'Extra Virgin Olive Oil’s Lost Virginity' have 5 comments
October 8, 2015 @ 4:00 pm Atom
Old olive trees yield the best oil.
Some olive trees are over 2,000 years old.
October 8, 2015 @ 4:02 pm Atom
My friend (for a while) _________ e-mailed one of The Watchers, allegedly 300-plus years old, asking, “Are you my teacher?”
Stars (his name) replied, “I am NOT your teacher. We are The Watchers. People don’t believe we exist, and we prefer it that way.”
He had read her mind and e-mailed her the details of a question she never asked.
Stars told her where to go to find out about the the ancient Black civilizations of North America.
October 8, 2015 @ 4:15 pm Atom
The liver’s glycogen deposition peaks at 2:00 a.m., and drops to its nadir at 2:00 p.m.
The liver’s bile production peaks at 2:00 p.m., and drops to its nadir at 2:00 a.m.
The circadian glycogen and biliary cycles are twelve hours opposite in time — 180 degrees of a circle.
Small Intestine Time (1:00-3:00 p.m.) can alternately be called Liver Biliary Time.
Liver Time (1:00-3:00 a.m.) can alternately be called Liver Glycogen Time.
October 15, 2015 @ 7:33 pm Chris
California olive ranch is the one of the only brands I trust.
October 20, 2015 @ 11:32 am Atom
Thanks, Chris! :)
Vibrant Gal and I buy our Sun Dried Black Olives at the Santa Barbara Farmers Market from California Coast Naturals in Goleta.