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Olive oil can be a scam. Make sure you’re getting the good stuff
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 421" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://qz.com/quartzy/1373867/olive-oil-can-be-a-scam-make-sure-youre-getting-the-good-stuff/" target="_blank"><strong>Olive oil can be a scam. Make sure you’re getting the good stuff - Quartzy</strong></a></p><p></p><p>There is a particular feeling of panic and dismay that one experiences in front of shelves stocked with olive oil. Extra virgin, virgin, pure, cold-pressed, Italian, Greek, Californian—which is best? And what about all those reports of <a href="https://www.epicurious.com/ingredients/seven-ways-to-tell-the-difference-between-real-and-fake-olive-oil-article" target="_blank">fake or adulterated olive oils</a>, and corruption in the industry? It’s like showing up to class and realizing there was a quiz.</p><p></p><p>If these terms seem confusing and arbitrary, it’s because they often are. Even those in the industry agree: The CEO of the world’s largest olive oil company made this point to his competitors recently, arguing that something needs to change.</p><p></p><p>“Consumption is falling because consumers have a lack of confidence and they don’t trust anything,” Deoleo head Pierluigi Tosato said, according to the Olive Oil Times. “Olive oil is a broken business model. We need to change it.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 421, member: 1"] [URL='https://qz.com/quartzy/1373867/olive-oil-can-be-a-scam-make-sure-youre-getting-the-good-stuff/'][B]Olive oil can be a scam. Make sure you’re getting the good stuff - Quartzy[/B][/URL] There is a particular feeling of panic and dismay that one experiences in front of shelves stocked with olive oil. Extra virgin, virgin, pure, cold-pressed, Italian, Greek, Californian—which is best? And what about all those reports of [URL='https://www.epicurious.com/ingredients/seven-ways-to-tell-the-difference-between-real-and-fake-olive-oil-article']fake or adulterated olive oils[/URL], and corruption in the industry? It’s like showing up to class and realizing there was a quiz. If these terms seem confusing and arbitrary, it’s because they often are. Even those in the industry agree: The CEO of the world’s largest olive oil company made this point to his competitors recently, arguing that something needs to change. “Consumption is falling because consumers have a lack of confidence and they don’t trust anything,” Deoleo head Pierluigi Tosato said, according to the Olive Oil Times. “Olive oil is a broken business model. We need to change it.” [/QUOTE]
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