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Buy olive oil from California Olive Ranch. It's not great (I'm on the east coast, and the latest harvest I can find is from October, 2014), but it's most likely

Buy olive oil from California Olive Ranch. It's not great (I'm on the east coast, and the latest harvest I can find is from October, 2014), but it's most likely the real thing.

exhilaration 11y ago
Trader Joe's California Estate Olive Oil is what we buy after reading this Consumer Reports article: http://www.consumerreports.org/content/cro/en/consumer-reports-magazine/z2012/September/extraVirginOliveOil.print.html#ratings http://www.consumerreports.org/content/cro/en/consumer-repor... Our Ratings show that you don’t need to buy oil with an Italian heritage to experience the best. California, which produces about 3 percent of the olive oil consumed in the U.S., is the source of the only two products judged Excellent: McEvoy Ranch (grown on a 550-acre property in Petaluma) and Trader Joe’s California Estate oil (“crafted to our specifications from the first press of Arbequina olives grown on estate ranches in the Sierra foothills”), which costs far less than McEvoy: 35 cents per ounce compared with $1.73. Three of the six Very Good oils also have a California pedigree: B.R. Cohn, 365 Everyday Value (Whole Foods), and California Olive Ranch. O-Live & Co. is pressed from Chilean olives. Only Lucini Premium Select and Kirkland Signature (Costco) Select Toscano are from olives grown in Italy. The other rated products contain olives from a mix of nations, such as Argentina, Greece, Italy, Morocco, Spain, Tunisia, and Turkey. Goya, a winner in our tests years ago, scored only a Fair this time around.
meowface 11y ago
I do use their olive oil. I prefer it to anything else I've tried from a grocery store. >It's not great Well, what is a great brand, then?
- jkereako 11y ago
  I say "not great" because in grocery stores in my area, all of the California Olive Ranch bottles are over a year old. The longer the oil sits, the worse it becomes. Also, the bottles are sitting beneath fluorescent lights. It does help that the bottles are dark green, but completely opaque is better. California Olive Ranch is a fine brand because, as far as I know, they can be trusted. That's the only reason why a brand even matters. They're members of the California Olive Council. EDIT If you're on west coast, I'd be curious to know the harvest date listed on your bottle.
- thrownaway2424 11y ago
  Lucero is pretty good, but $50 or more per liter.

Buy olive oil from California Olive Ranch. It's not great (I'm on the east coast, and the latest harvest I can find is from October, 2014), but it's most likely the real thing.

exhilaration 11y ago

Trader Joe's California Estate Olive Oil is what we buy after reading this Consumer Reports article: http://www.consumerreports.org/content/cro/en/consumer-reports-magazine/z2012/September/extraVirginOliveOil.print.html#ratings http://www.consumerreports.org/content/cro/en/consumer-repor... Our Ratings show that you don’t need to buy oil with an Italian heritage to experience the best. California, which produces about 3 percent of the olive oil consumed in the U.S., is the source of the only two products judged Excellent: McEvoy Ranch (grown on a 550-acre property in Petaluma) and Trader Joe’s California Estate oil (“crafted to our specifications from the first press of Arbequina olives grown on estate ranches in the Sierra foothills”), which costs far less than McEvoy: 35 cents per ounce compared with $1.73. Three of the six Very Good oils also have a California pedigree: B.R. Cohn, 365 Everyday Value (Whole Foods), and California Olive Ranch. O-Live & Co. is pressed from Chilean olives. Only Lucini Premium Select and Kirkland Signature (Costco) Select Toscano are from olives grown in Italy. The other rated products contain olives from a mix of nations, such as Argentina, Greece, Italy, Morocco, Spain, Tunisia, and Turkey. Goya, a winner in our tests years ago, scored only a Fair this time around.

meowface 11y ago

I do use their olive oil. I prefer it to anything else I've tried from a grocery store. >It's not great Well, what is a great brand, then?

jkereako 11y ago
I say "not great" because in grocery stores in my area, all of the California Olive Ranch bottles are over a year old. The longer the oil sits, the worse it becomes. Also, the bottles are sitting beneath fluorescent lights. It does help that the bottles are dark green, but completely opaque is better. California Olive Ranch is a fine brand because, as far as I know, they can be trusted. That's the only reason why a brand even matters. They're members of the California Olive Council. EDIT If you're on west coast, I'd be curious to know the harvest date listed on your bottle.
thrownaway2424 11y ago
Lucero is pretty good, but $50 or more per liter.