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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.
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?
Quoting DoingIsLearning from these comments: The study was in Spain were both the quality of olive oil is very high and the retail cost fairly low comparatively with the rest if the world. Also many arguably poor farmers will grow their own olive trees and distribute the oil yield among their wider family. So perhaps not so case closed as you say.
Also, I'm not sure about Spain but farmers generally have noticeably higher life expectancy than the average.
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…
It depends on where you live. If you live in California, you should not be purchasing Greek olive oil as it will oxidize by the time it gets to you. 100% Californian olive oil is the way to go for health. Or better yet just use coconut oil and butter/ghee.
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If that was true why would anyone use refined oil ?
You will have to live in Spain and know people to get high quality cheap oil. I have my own olive trees and we bring our olives to a small cooperative press; in that community the oil costs next to nothing, however, when it’s exported (and most here is for local production and is sold locally only), it is priced to what you find in the shop.
If Spain is anything like Croatia you are not really poor if you own olive trees - you're probably middle class. Poor people sell that kind of inheritance very fast, and also buy cheap supermarket olive oil.
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…
I recently had some very good Australian olive oil, Colbram brand. I expect there's less problems with fakery in Aussie EVOO, but not certain.
Plenty of supply and it's not a relatively massive export so I'd wager the incentive to fake it just doesn't exist
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You will have to live in Spain and know people to get high quality cheap oil. I have my own olive trees and we bring our olives to a small cooperative press; in that community the oil costs next to nothing, however, when it’s exported (and most here is for local production and is sold locally only), it is priced to what you find in the shop.
But isn't this study done on people from Spain? If Spain is anything like Croatia you are not really poor if you own olive trees - you're probably middle class. Poor people sell that kind of inheritance very fast, and also buy cheap supermarket olive oil.
If you are poor and want to live here you are better of putting a caravan on your land than selling it for peanuts and not being able to do much of anything with that money (maybe 1-2 months rent). At least working the land will pay you something and you can trade olives for other goods (many of my neighbours live like that).
Most land / ruins won’t get sold at all; people move away to the cities for jobs and just forget about it, or, family feud and they cannot agree; the result is the same. Usually the neighbour just uses it as their own ‘until they come back’ (which often is never).
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…
I wasn’t aware you could buy anything from Amazon at all without fear of adulteration.
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I am only speaking about taste but various italian olive oils I have tested are too... acrid in my opinion. In comparison, all greek olive oils I have had access to ranged from good to amazingly good. Speaking from the pov of someone whose main fodder is bread, olive oil and lettuce.
Do you make sandwiches with olive oil and lettuce? Genuinely curious.
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Is Amazon really that bad to work for? I had two roommates who were warehouse managers, and they didn't really seem to dislike their jobs much.
They employ over a million people. There’s going to be a pretty wide range of experiences. I worked for AWS, it was one of the best jobs I’ve had and the only one in decades where I could leave the office, not think about work at all until I came back in, and not feel the slightest bit guilty or anxious about that. I know others have had a very different AWS experience. Also anecdotally, I’d always chat to the facili…
Is it a dream job since your childhood? Hardly, but they are fine. I have one friend back home in eastern europe, basically full time categorizing new items added on marketplace for couple of years. Clear promotion paths (he was promoted 3x so far IIRC), perks, he wanted to switch to full WFH anywhere and he could easily, no push to return to offices after covid heights. He had tons of opportunities to change job but he is content with where he is.
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> I certainly lean towards virgin OO when I’m feeling that I want to be healthy. Fwiw the use case for non-virgin olive oil is different. You’d want to use non virgin in anything that involves heat as it won’t burn or break down as easily. For anything that you’ll taste (eg dressings) you’d want an extra virgin oil that will have more of the plants’ taste. Could be worth splurging on nice oil for dressings/dipping oi…
Some of this is contrary to what I've read and my personal experience: Subjecting EVOO to an electric blender results in a distinctly bitter taste. For salad dressings that involve a blender, I stick with non-EV olive oils.
I've never considered using a blender to make a dressing. I was thinking "drizzle oil over leaves with some vinegar" type of dressing. Something like that is where you'd be able to taste the flavors of the oil. But I'm one of those weird people who goes to oil tasting rooms to find the ones I like so maybe its not a universal advice.