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   Col (kibcol1049@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Oct-2024 17:26:59 JST Col

   Few shoppers will have failed to notice the “eye-watering” rise in olive oil prices, says Bloomberg. Criminals have spotted an opportunity. In July, Italian police seized 42 tons of fake extra virgin olive oil worth almost $1m, alongside 623 litres of chlorophyll, which was being added to low-grade oil, and 71 tons of something ominously referred to as an “oily substance”. In January, seed oil mixed with beta-carotene and chlorophyll was being passed off as extra virgin in 50 Rome restaurants.

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     @kibcol1049 I personally think that 90% of the people in North America who think they've tasted EVOO have never tasted anything better than a VOO at best, and likely not even that high a grade. Far more likely is that they bought OO at EVOO prices and for what they think is OO they likely got ROO instead.

     For Europeans that's closer to 75%.

     Olive oil has been faked for most of my life and then some.

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     OO = Olive Oil
     VOO = Virgin OO
     EVOO = Extra VOO
     ROO = Refined OO