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If you see a bottle saying "OLIVE OIL" and its actually a mix of sunflower, canola, or other oils in small print that's a product illegal to be sold in the US.
by vel0city 2mo ago
If you see a bottle saying "OLIVE OIL" and its actually a mix of sunflower, canola, or other oils in small print that's a product illegal to be sold in the US. It has to be very clearly labeled its a mix.
If its labeled as olive oil it has to be just oil from olives. The "extra virgin" and related labels don't carry any real weight here in the US though. I do wish we'd enforce labeling standards on stuff like EVOO, maybe also require actual country of origin for that particular bottle instead of allowing them to list it may come from practically every olive oil producing country.
Please name and shame the product, and report it to the USDA.
- kevin_thibedeau 2mo agoThe usual trick is "made with OLIVE OIL".
- vel0city 2mo agoIf its a usual trick one should be able to find some usual examples. I've never encountered a bottle of oil in the US suggesting its olive oil when its really a blend. Maybe I've encountered a bottle that had a picture of an olive in the background along with other vegetables, but never something really trying to suggest its "olive oil". They almost always just have generic vegetables on them or soybeans or whatever. Can you share an example with me?
- calvinmorrison 2mo agoOh you gotta start shopping at the discount marts.
- vel0city 2mo agoI do quite often, and have been for decades. Along with shopping at foreign/"world" grocery stores, higher end grocery stores, etc. Across several different US markets over the many years. Once again, got any actual examples of this supposedly incredibly common thing?
- calvinmorrison 2mo agoyes literally heres from my local market. 20% olive oil yet the main oil is in very light (its even harder to see in real life with how the eye works at a store), and then in big letters OLIVE... yeah this is a great example!
- vel0city 2mo ago....got anything more than a text description of the product that happens to leave off any actual descriptions? Got a brand name? A variety name? What store sold it? No? Huh weird. Man they now make almost all olive oil from crude oil! Look, I've got a bottle here, says 100% PURE EXTRA ULTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OIL* and then you look at the fine print on this bottle and it says "LOL ACTUALLY 100% USED MOTOR OIL GOTCHA!!" This is how all the bottles at every supermarket in my unspecified city is like!
- calvinmorrison 2mo agohttps://images.cdn.shoprite.com/detail/00895507000857_1 https://images.cdn.shoprite.com/detail/00895507000857_1
- vel0city 2mo agoYou're confused the "Violi Mediterranean Blend Italian Sunflower & Extra Virgin Olive Oil" isn't purely olive oil? Really? To be honest though, I've never come across this. Apparently its sold at HEB. Its also kind of crazy it took this many replies for someone to actually link a real product they're talking about. Either way, I still feel like this isn't breaking my standard. Its pretty obvious from the packaging what it is. "I've never encountered a bottle of oil in the US suggesting its olive oil when its really a blend". Its not hiding its a blend at all. Its on the face of the bottle, announcing its a blend is in an even bigger font than "OLIVE OIL". The person I replied to said the fact it was a blend was hardly legible. It was immediately obvious to me this was a blend.
- 2mo ago