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by alphabetam 3629 days ago
In Italy, a bottle of proper extra-virgin olive oil is roughly 10 euros per liter. If you're paying less than that, it's not real.
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Ah, but that's only a one-directional test. Cheap oil is obviously not olive oil, but that doesn't help you choose in the supermarket aisle if the expensive oil is also not olive oil.

(And, in fact, the expensive oil being the fake is rather the whole point: the Italian Mafia wants to sell something cheap as something expensive and capture the margin; there's no point in just selling something cheap as something cheap.)

That seems a bit too much.

In Greece, when you buy unlabelled bottles (dark green and sooo tasty) directly at a farmer's you pay about 8€. And that's probably a tourist-price.

I imagine that price is even lower when produced industrially, here austrian supermarkets you pay 3-5€ per bottle.