Spanish olive oil producers say big supermarkets are making huge profits at the expense of consumers by making a 59% margin over the initial price. #EuropeNews
  • KevonLooney@lemm.ee
    10·
    3 months ago

    Um, 2 gallons for $16? That was probably fake or blended olive oil. That’s $2 a quart. No one is selling you the good stuff for that price.

    • penquin@lemm.ee
      2·
      3 months ago

      It’s refined olive oil and 15% extra virgin olive oil. Here it is on their site for a single one. At the store, they have the two bottles attached with a plastic handle.

      • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        3 months ago

        refined olive oil

        What does that even mean?

        There’s two types of olive oil: pressed from olives, and definitely not olive oil.

        The amount of snake oil in the US food industry is unbelievable.

        • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          3·
          3 months ago

          from what I understand, there are essentially three levels of olive oil:

          • Extra Virgin Olive Oil: the good stuff, used primarily as a taste additive, dressings, etc.
          • Refined Olive Oil: the cheap stuff, typically mashed olives that make it out of EEVO. You’ll use this for frying
          • Blended Olive Oil: medium priced, usually a blend of EEVO and refined

          That isn’t to say that olive oil doesn’t need better controls and oversight.

          There is no reason to buy EEVO when refined will do. I use the cheap stuff for making mayonnaise because it blends better. In fact, if you try to use EEVO for mayonnaise, it will turn rancid.

          • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            3 months ago

            from what I understand, there are essentially three levels of olive oil:

            Extra Virgin Olive Oil: the good stuff, used primarily as a taste additive, dressings, etc.
Refined Olive Oil: the cheap stuff, typically mashed olives that make it out of EEVO. You’ll use this for frying
Blended Olive Oil: medium priced, usually a blend of EEVO and refined

            From what I understand, it went like this:

            • “Hey, what’s all this goop on the floor?”
            • “It’s all the crap from the olives we pressed this morning… Hey, Mario, come and wipe this off!”
            • “Wait wait, can’t we sell this?”
            • “Are you crazy? Who would want to buy olive goop?”
            • “Let me think about it… Mario, put it in barrels.”

            And that’s how most of the US food shittification went. People got used to it and it’s normal to them.

            Meanwhile in Europe, there’s no “refined olive oil” to be found. Like many of the creative aberrations of the US market, they’re completely absent in the rest of the developed world.

        • penquin@lemm.ee
          2·
          3 months ago

          Refined means the oil gets processed to neutralize defects in taste, aroma, or acidity.It’s still olive oil, but it’s treated so your food doesn’t taste like olive oil when you cook it with. That’s all. It’s not snake oil. Lol

          • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
            21·
            3 months ago

            It is refined for higher smoke point so it can be used for high heat cooking. they do this by removing solids etc

            this is done via chemical treatments. it is fine but oilive oil is not best all purpose and high heat cooking oil.

            neutralize defects in taste, aroma, or acidity

            that’s an odd phrasing… you don’t buy high heat cooking for any of that. more accurate way to put it is that they strip oil of taste and aroma that comes from solids in the cold pressed table grade oil.

      • KevonLooney@lemm.ee
        3·
        3 months ago

        You know Costco isn’t squeezing the olives themselves? There’s a lot of fake olive oil out there. They just blend in some vegetable oil or something.

        • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
          22·
          3 months ago

          normies have hard time understanding that major US companies are part of the problem because they “trust the brand” lol

          they buy goyslop grade product, prolly less than 50% refined olive oil blended with some cheap shite, all of it extracted with heavy chemical processing.

          it is fine for cooking, whatever, but i is hardly “olive oil” lol

          even if it is labeled as such, it aint. math don’t work.

          • penquin@lemm.ee
            2·
            3 months ago

            The whole topic was about how shit became expensive, I don’t know why we are talking about “normies” and conspiracy theories! Holy shit, some folks scoure the internet to just drag people down to their misery. Get a fucking life, you two.