Trump threatens China with cooking oil embargo over soybean snub

[Warpy]

11. I know there is tremendous fraud around stuff labeled "olive oil."

and I read somewhere that the fancier the bottle and more twee the label, the greater the chances it's at least 50% something else with food coloring. The same article cited the big producers as having the highest proportion of actual olive oil, other oils added only to produce a consistent flavor profile for the brand. I usually stick to Bertolli, I like their flavor profile.

The other scam is "extra virgin" or "extra extra virgin." It's all the same pressing, rollers extracting most of the oil in one go. The lees, those dry bits that are what's left of the olives, then go through a chemical extraction process that produces that pale yellow, nearly tasteless "olive oil" that people who want to eat a Mediterranean diet but hate the taste of olive oil use. It's not very good for you, so avoid it. Learn to like olive oil or use a different oil.

I wouldn't be terribly surprised to find out my peanut oil has palm, soybean, sunflower, or another oil in it. It's not making me sick, so it's not canola, and that's all I care about right now.