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Only virgin type of olive oil consumption reduces the risk of mortality: study

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Re: Only virgin type of olive oil consumption reduces the risk of mortality: study

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Post by efficax »

armchairhacker wrote: post #29
bgribble wrote: post #20

On urban US supermarket shelves virtually every bottle of olive oil advertises itself as "virgin" or the "even better" varieties ("extra virgin", "first cold pressed" etc). I have read that many of these labels are hogwash, and that the contents of your typical supermarket "extra virgin olive oil" bottle pretty often include adulterants like palm, canola, or sunflower oil. I can definitely taste the diff between supe…

I get California Olive Branch “100% California” EVOO because I heard it was genuine. Do you know if this is true, and if not, which brands are? I only add like 1tsp of oil to the pan when cooking so I can justify using the more expensive brands, though i don’t really taste a difference

the 100% california stuff is genuine, although a blend from california farms (so not single olive estate, which the best stuff is. i think they also sell single olive oils but they are very expensive). The blended stuff from south american olives is also probably real. It certainly tastes real if not as nice and peppery as the good stuff. If you're ever in northern california a lot of the wineries in sonoma / napa also grow and press olive oil, those are worth grabbing and savouring. wonderful by the spoonful.

Re: Only virgin type of olive oil consumption reduces the risk of mortality: study

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Post by deandublin »

Matthewiiv wrote: post #84

It's almost as if human nutrition and mortality are complex systems and a single foodstuff doesn't have any significant effect. Not only that but surely nobody is surprised that the people who can afford the more expensive version of a product live longer. Why have we not given up on this nonsense idea of miracle foods already?

did you read it?

it just says unheated OO is better than the heated stuff. Pretty obvious that heating food can kill the good stuff, if there is good stuff in it to start with, that it.

Re: Only virgin type of olive oil consumption reduces the risk of mortality: study

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Post by Eisenstein »

jmainguy wrote: post #90
amluto wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wasn’t aware you could buy anything from Amazon at all without fear of adulteration.

Yeah I would never buy anything electronic, or anything to consume or put on my body from amazon.

If you actually want cheap highly reproducable electronics amazon is fine. It is alibaba but twice as expensive for an order of magnitude reduction in shipping speed.

Re: Only virgin type of olive oil consumption reduces the risk of mortality: study

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Post by ucha »

I get a couple of gallons of olive oil in a small village directly from the press in November each year. It's not filtered so it has a lot of particles in suspension and it goes bad faster, maybe after a year or so. But it tastes nothing like supermarket extra-virgin olive oil, the taste is so much more concentrated.

Olive oil has a pretty short shelf life. The best way to get the good stuff is to make sure you buy:

- the latest harvest (they're usually harvested in early fall)

- non-filtered

- stored in a dark bottle, somewhere cool (light oxidizes it)

- single origin (if it's not, then they're likely mixing old rancid and new oils)

- first press, cold extracted

Re: Only virgin type of olive oil consumption reduces the risk of mortality: study

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Post by stavros »

metroholografix wrote: post #73

Greek olive oil is considered the best in the world and doesn't suffer from Mafia infiltration which is a huge problem in Italy [1] [2] [3]. Here is some good quality Greek olive oil available in US, reasonably priced, that you can buy without fear of adulteration or other shadiness: https://www.amazon.com/Terra-Creta-Kolymvari-Protective-Desi... https://www.amazon.com/Iliada-Extra-Virgin-Olive-Liter/dp/B0... The Gre…

Greek here, never heard of Terra Creta or Iliada, but the PDO stamps look legit (they are from famous oil-producing areas).

Re: Only virgin type of olive oil consumption reduces the risk of mortality: study

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Post by leloup_legarou »

lalaithion wrote: post #91

Aka "Good job finding a class-correlate you didn't manage to control for"

If the study was done in the US, then maybe. But it was done in Spain:

> 12,161 individuals, representative of the Spanish population ≥18 years old, were recruited between 2008 and 2010 and followed up through 2019.

Where nobody can prepare food without olive oil. It's the law.

Re: Only virgin type of olive oil consumption reduces the risk of mortality: study

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Post by lg »

bgribble wrote: post #20

On urban US supermarket shelves virtually every bottle of olive oil advertises itself as "virgin" or the "even better" varieties ("extra virgin", "first cold pressed" etc). I have read that many of these labels are hogwash, and that the contents of your typical supermarket "extra virgin olive oil" bottle pretty often include adulterants like palm, canola, or sunflower oil. I can definitely taste the diff between supe…

In NYC you are spoiled for choice, my go-to is Mani marketplace that periodically gets a batch in from their dad's grove in the Mani :)

Re: Only virgin type of olive oil consumption reduces the risk of mortality: study

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Post by leloup_legarou »

thecoppinger wrote: post #53

Edit: reading this back, it sounds somewhat like an attempt to shill a product. So, disclaimer: I have absolutely no affiliation with Jeff or the Cultured Oils, I’m just fascinated by it. Serial entrepreneur Jeff Nobbs recently launched a new product in the food oil space: Cultured Oil* I came across his writings* on the perils of seed oils earlier this year and it radically changed the way I eat. After becoming awar…

> Edit: reading this back, it sounds somewhat like an attempt to shill a product.

I don't know about that, but you may be right to be suspicious. In my experience, most research into the health effects of extra virgin olive oil is funded by Spanish, Italian or Greek institutions. For example, the affiliations of the authors of the study in the article above are mainly to Spanish institutions.

Re: Only virgin type of olive oil consumption reduces the risk of mortality: study

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Post by quesera »

zwieback wrote: post #27
klodolph wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I somehow survived the “let’s put bacon on everything” craze of the 2010s but it was not a good time.

so, the 2020s appear to be shaping up as the "truffles on everything" decade and I hate it. Maybe I'd enjoy a real truffle here and there but the truffle flavoring I usually encounter is offensive to my tongue.

Truffles, I can handle.

But I'm still scarred from the 1990s "put capers in everything" era.

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