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Could it be fake, adulterated or poisonous somehow?
by hammock 3y ago
Could it be fake, adulterated or poisonous somehow?
- hammock 3y agoBS to downvote me for this comment. Cheap olive oil is counterfeit. Cheap milk, honey and coffee are adulterated with fillers. Cheap tumeric is colored with lead oxide
- tired_throwaway 3y agoI can buy some of your claims, but how do you adulterate a coffee bean?
- infecto 3y agoYou add fillers to the ground product.
- ssl-3 3y agoCoffee beans are bin-sorted in a way where the good coffee gets better, and the lesser coffee gets worse. The most-shapely and consistent beans go to the more-premium lines. The small, underdeveloped, or misshapen beans (called "clinkers") go to the cheaper lines, along with the other defects. And so does the chaff from the coffee hulls, which is rolled up into weird little balls and thrown in too -- which is not done with premium coffees. The unavoidable portion of insect parts is higher in cheap coffee than it is in expensive coffee. In an ideal world, all of the stuff that is removed from premium coffees would be used as compost or something. But it is instead included in the lesser coffees, where it is consumed.
- throwway120385 3y agoNot always. I've done the color test on a lot of cheap spices I get in the middle eastern stores I can go to and they've always passed the tests. Sometimes it's cheaper because you're not paying for it to be portioned into little glass jars and sold as an exotic, rare thing like it is in western european cuisine.
- computershit 3y agoDownvotes were for poison hyperbole almost certainly
- fbdab103 3y agoPoison seems totally fair. Counterfeit tumeric can have high amounts of lead. Lead being one of those chemicals with no safe amount.
- mrguyorama 3y agoWe literally have a cinnamon adulteration case going through the US right now. Children were poisoned by applesauce with adulterated cinnamon.
- BobaFloutist 3y agoCheap olive oil from Costco is not counterfeit. Cheap honey from Costco isn't counterfeit. Cheap vanilla from Costco is...once again, not counterfeit. Moral: Buy things from Costco.
- gnicholas 3y agoOlive oil should be used within a reasonably short time of opening, which makes Costco-sized bottles less practical. We buy honey and vanilla extract from Costco, but we don't use olive oil anywhere near fast enough to justify buying Costco-sized jugs.
- vasco 3y agoMy family makes a small batch of olive oil from a couple of big trees we have and have never gotten through what we make that fast, even though we use a lot. What's the problem in taking long to consume it? (Months)
- gnicholas 3y agoI assume that the olive oil I buy in the store is very old compared to fresh-pressed oil. Similarly, my aunt has an avocado tree, and her fresh-picked avocados stay ripe for weeks, unlike the store-bought kind that have a sweet spot of ~36 hours.
- faizan-ali 3y agoOlive oil somm here (yeah that's a thing!) Olive oil (and all cooking oils in general) are the opposite of wine - once bottled they start degrading and any additional exposure to air, light, heat degrades them further. What degrades specifically? Usually it's the nuanced flavors and health benefits of good extra virgin, it'll usually be fine for cooking but you're losing out on the purposeful decision of using olive oil over vegetable oils (gross)
- pcl 3y agoOlive oil is so much cheaper in bulk. Do you have any tips for how to preserve it? Intuitively, I would assume that re-bottling a large volume into several small bottles (and then keeping the extras sealed and in the dark) would be better than using a larger bottle continuously. Does that hold up to your experience?
- thfuran 3y agoNot lead oxide, lead chromate. So you can get all the hexavalent chromium you could ever need. But by "cheap", I think you mean "the absolute dodgiest crap that mostly never even gets exported from Bangladesh".
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