[hanniabu]

Not everybody has the luxury of "coming to peace" with it. I have an extremely strict diet due to food insensitivies and olive oil is the only way I can get fat in my diet. Bad olive oil is cut with other oils and literally makes me sick.

The real stuff is extremely hard to find and now I stock up with a year's worth because the last place I sourced it from went out of business and took q while to find another location.

[balderdash]

you might also try Costco if you are in the US. Anecdotally, a friend of mine is a supplier for Costco on the food/beverage side, and told me that they did more diligence than all their other customers combined.

EDIT: you might also just try going direct to small suppliers, a lot wineries also make olive oil

https://winecountrytable.com/travel/other-activities/six-son...

[gnicholas]

It's tough to buy olive oil at Costco because they sell big containers, and good olive oil goes rancid before many people would be able to consume it all.

[dheera]

> The real stuff is extremely hard to find

I buy stuff like this

https://barianioliveoil.com/

and this

https://shop.sekahills.com/Products/Olive-Oil

These are both California olive oils, available at my local Whole Foods, and indicate clearly the harvest date. They taste far better than the mass produced brands. Are they not the real thing? Please enlighten me. If price isn't an issue which olive oil should I get if I like bold flavor?

[binarymax]

Sorry to hear that. Not sure where you’re located but check out the supplier I mentioned, it’s definitely pure.

https://folivers.com/

[hanniabu]

Thanks, good to have for emergencies although it looks like they're all flavors and don't have it plain.

[binarymax]

They certainly do! In the ‘single varietal’ section:

https://folivers.com/product-category/single-varietal-evoo/

I usually get the Hojiblanca but seems that variety is unavailable online.

Also to be clear, I have no affiliation.

[trollbridge]

If you can make it to Corning, CA, which is in the heart of California's olive country, you can stop by the Olive Pit and not only buy a variety of olive oils (many locally produced), but they also allow samples.

They do sell online as well but I haven't tried that option.

[MattGaiser]

Olive oil is commonly cut with other oils to the point that you have repeatedly run into health problems as a result of food fraud? I knew it was common, but that is basically at the point of routine.

[programd]

It's worse then just health problems. People have died as a result of olive oil being cut with phenylamine, most notoriously in Sapin in 1981. An estimated 2100 people died. The survivors were still protesting as of a couple of years ago.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/fake-olive-oil-scandal-...

[NavinF]

Why would anyone cut olive oil with with phenylamine? The former is dirt cheap. Wikipedia comes in clutch and reveals the root cause:

"Spanish regulations of the time allowed imports of rapeseed oil only for industrial use, and only if it has been denatured with aniline to prevent use as food"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_oil_syndrome

The article goes on to reveal that the deaths were likely caused by something else:

"The WHO has since then tried to recreate the poisoning in laboratory animals with less-than-satisfactory results"

"when these three substances were given to laboratory animals, OOPAP was not acutely toxic, PAP was toxic only after injection, but not after oral administration, and OPAP was toxic only after injection of high doses.[3] Therefore, none of these three substances is thought to cause TOS.[3] Similar results were obtained after administration of fatty acid anilides"

[trimistermota]

If its okay, may i ask what exact sensitivity do you have?

[hanniabu]

I have SIBO, so fodmaps plus more. Most things that are fodmap free still fuck me up.

[nobodyandproud]

I wonder if you can side-hustle reviewing oils (or for society, if you’re wealthy).

It’d be awful getting sick on a bad batch, however.