2 Ways To Recognize if Your Olive Oil is Fake
The author of the book “Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil”, Tom Mueller, claims that 70% of the clean olive oil in the world is diluted with other kinds of oil, which is bad for the health.
How to recognize cold pressed olive oil?
You can hardly recognize its taste, and even experts are sometimes confused. However, there are two ways to help you buy the original olive oil brand.
1. Clean olive oil thickens when it is cold.
2. Original olive oil is easily flammable.
Local products are always the safest choice. You can also trust producers who have a certificate that their oil is clean and organic. Never take the price as an indicator of good quality.
Cold pressed olive oil contains 0.8g of free fatty acids, measured as the amount of oleic acid contained in 100g of the product. It is considered the healthiest kind, and it is rich in aromatic and valuable nutrients.
How to store olive oil?
Heat and light can easily spoil good quality olive oil. Always choose olive oil sealed in glass bottles and right after you come home, keep some of it in a smaller bottle and store it in the cupboard, but never near the stove or other source of heat. Keep the rest of the oil at a temperature of 15 °C.