Title: How to Find Real Extra-Virgin Olive Oil
Headings: How to Find
Real
Extra-Virgin Olive Oil

How to Find Real Extra-Virgin Olive Oil
Content: Fake olive oil made headlines a few years ago when Tom Mueller’s book, Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil, exposed widespread deception in the global olive-oil market. The problem hasn’t eased up. Earlier this year, Italian police busted a mafia-led crime ring for exporting fraudulent extra-virgin olive oil to the United States. The incentive for food fraudsters to keep up their crimes has only increased. The price of EVOO skyrocketed this year, thanks to wonky weather in Spain and Italy, where a lot of the world’s olives are grown. Bogus EVOO might be diluted with cheaper, less healthy oils, like soybean, sunflower, or even heavily refined olive oil. A common problem? Stale oil, which quickly goes rancid, sometimes even before it hits supermarket shelves. So how can consumers know they’re getting genuine extra-virgin olive oil?