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> Ingredients: > Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Truffle Extract That's like a double lie, right there. If they are cheap enough to skimp on Truffles, what is to s
by Ygg2 10y ago
> Ingredients:
> Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Truffle Extract
That's like a double lie, right there. If they are cheap enough to skimp on Truffles, what is to say, they aren't cheap enough to skimp on Virgin Olive Oil?
> Honest ingredients:
> Sunflower oil, Olive flavor, Truffles flavor*
* which might have at one point passed near a guy
that ate actual Truffles
- koolba 10y agoI'm sure the explanation is that: "Extra" refers to them using a larger portion than normal, "Virgin" is the company name of their supplier, "Olive" is a variety of sunflower seed, and there is a missing dash in "Truffle Ex-Tract".
- dsugarman 10y agoIt is estimated that 70% of Olive Oils in super markets are fraudulent so I definitely don't think truffle oil contains the good stuff.
- shostack 10y agoI just read somewhere that the only Whole Foods 365 evoo that is actually pure and unblended is their California one and not any of the other Mediterranean country ones. Super sketchy. This should be outlawed.
- scythe 10y agoIt is outlawed. Organized crime controls a shocking proportion of the European olive oil market. For the last several years, I've exclusively bought olive oil grown and produced in America. To my knowledge, it's all real.
- twism 10y agoprobably in addition to the honest ingredients the sunflower oil has been known to fraternize with the palm and coconut oil