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-repo

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.