When most people go to the store to choose the best olive oil brands for their cooking and DIY needs, they are unaware that most of the bottles on grocery shelves are full of fake oil. Yep, just like when you’re buying essential oils, you need to know that a vast majority of the olive oil that you see today are adulterated, fake or so highly processed that they are dangerous for your health.
So what’s the solution? To learn how to choose the best options for your olive oil!
And, that’s what this report is all about!
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Historical Importance of Pure Olive Oil
“Use Extra Virgin Olive Oil and You Might Just Forget to Die”
— Article Headline in Reader’s Digest
There is one superfood mentioned often in the Bible that modern medicine is studying intensely for its potential in fighting America’s biggest killer diseases, including heart disease, stroke, cancer, Alzheimer’s, as well as arthritis and inflammation everywhere in the body.
We’re talking about olive oil. Honored in olden times as both a food and a medicine, olive oil was so revered that it became a symbol of prosperity, joy, and health. Kings were anointed with olive oil as a sign that they were chosen by God to rule.
Other ancients revered olive oil as well. Homer called it “liquid gold.” Hippocrates, the father of medicine, hailed it as “the great healer.”
Fast forward to today, and scientific studies are proving the ancients right, with profound health benefits.
Stick with “Extra Virgin”
When you shop for olive oil, be sure to buy extra virgin. As you may know, one of our favorite sayings about food is, “If God made it, then it’s fine, and try to eat it in the same form that God made it.” That’s why we prefer extra virgin olive oil (EVOO). It’s the only grade that retains its natural phenols (antioxidants) and other health-promoting compounds. EVOO is cold pressed, meaning it’s not extracted using high heat or harsh chemicals. It’s minimally processed, leaving in all the wholesome nutrients that God meant it to have.
Other olive oil grades, such as “virgin,” “pure,” or “light,” have been industrially refined, which destroys the healthful phenols.”
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Health Benefits of Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Confirming that authentic extra virgin olive oil is indeed one of nature’s most remarkable superfoods, it can help lower bad cholesterol and cut your risk of heart disease and stroke. It may help protect you against cancer, especially cancer of the breast, prostate, and colon. It can be a godsend for arthritis sufferers because it can reduce inflammation and ease joint pain without side effects.
Extra virgin olive oil lowers blood pressure and reduces your risk of diabetes. It may even help reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. If you want to avoid osteoporosis, it’s outstanding because it enables the calcium in your food to be better absorbed into your bones. Extra virgin olive oil is loaded with antioxidants and polyphenols that help regulate your immune system and aid it in protecting your body against disease. It contains zero carbs, which makes it ideal for those on the popular, Paleo, Atkins, vegan, and other eating plans.
We love olive oil so much, we recommend it as an ideal carrier for our essential oils, not to mention as a delicious flavor enhancer on so many of our family’s favorite dishes.
To read more about the health benefits of olive oil check out our latest report HERE.
Cancer-Causing Agents in Fake Olive Oils?
In his New York Times best-selling book, Extra Virginity, olive oil expert Tom Mueller warns of contaminants and even cancer-causing agents in fake olive oils. He writes:
“Italian investigators have found hydrocarbon residues, pesticides, and other contaminants in fake oils, and pomace oil, a common adulterant, sometimes contains mineral oil as well as PAHs, proven carcinogens that can also damage DNA and the immune system. Then there’s the 1981 case of toxic oil syndrome in Spain, when rapeseed oil adulterated with an industrial additive, sold as olive oil, killed eight hundred people and seriously injured thousands more.”
This is why you never want to feed your family counterfeit olive oils cooked up by criminals who couldn’t care less about your family’s health.
3 Mistakes When Choosing Olive Oil Brands
However, even if the label says “extra virgin,” you’ve got to be careful because many olive oils in stores are rancid, adulterated, or even counterfeit.
Here’s how to buy with confidence and avoid the biggest mistakes.
Mistake #1: Buying stale olive oil “off the shelf.”
Olive oil, unlike wine, does not get better with age. Like eggs, meat, fish, veggies, and other fresh, natural foods, olive oil is perishable. The olive is, after all, a fruit. Similar to other fruit juices, olive oil is best enjoyed fresh-squeezed. That’s when you experience its peak freshness, flavor, and nutritional potency.
Forget the “best used by” date on labels. They tell you nothing about how recently the olive oil was pressed. The best EVOO producers put a pressing date on the label (also known as the “harvest date”). Preferably, you want to see a date no older than six months ago. As The Wall Street Journal puts it, “When it comes to olive oil, the younger the better.”
Our Recommendation:
Avoid buying olive oil in stores, where the oils sit on the shelf for months or even years, growing stale, musty, and rancid. That’s definitely not healthy. We recommend buying online, where you can secure outrageously delicious olive oils fresh from the latest harvest. That’s when olive oil is bursting with just-plucked-from-the-tree flavor and goodness. Try just one bottle of such fresh-pressed olive oil from a good online company, and you’ll likely never go back to store-bought oils. Below we name our favorite online source of harvest-fresh olive oils.
Mistake #2: Unwittingly buying olive oil made by the Mafia.
As you’ve probably heard, fake, Mafia-made olive oils have been flooding U.S. supermarkets. If you’ve missed this frightening story, here are just a few of the headlines you can check out online…
NBC News has reported that “fake olive oil is rampant.” The Wall Street Journal adds, “American grocery stores are awash in cheap, fake ‘extra virgins.’” In an explosive exposé, 60 Minutes has cautioned that you face a “sea of fakes” when you shop for olive oil in stores.
Why Is This Happening?
Thanks to the many health benefits of authentic olive oil, demand is soaring worldwide. But pure extra virgin olive oil is quite expensive. Just as notorious crime families pocket fortunes by creating cheap knockoffs of designer clothing and handbags, they palm off fake olive oil as extra virgin, the highest grade. The New Yorker magazine has reported that the profits in counterfeiting olive oil are “comparable to cocaine trafficking, with none of the risks.”
Because America is the world’s largest consumer market, the crooks have successfully targeted U.S. supermarkets as their favorite dumping ground.
Our Recommendation:
Buy from a supplier whose oils are independently lab certified to be 100% pure extra virgin. This gives you protection against all the fakes. The source we name below is one such conscientious provider.
Mistake #3: Thinking that all olive oils taste alike.
If you’ve always bought your olive oil in a supermarket, odds are you’ve never experienced the extraordinary diversity of flavors that await you among the finest artisanal oils. Ordinary mass-market olive oils sell in such huge volume that they must combine inferior olives from many farms and different growing regions, with little regard for flavor compatibility. This typically results in a dull, lifeless flavor profile.
In contrast, award-winning artisans create their oils from olives grown on small boutique farms. These dedicated masters are free to strive for flavor perfection from each different type of olive. This makes their award-winning creations as rich, complex, and distinctive as the finest wines, especially when you use them with your favorite foods.
For example, some olive varietals naturally possess a bright, spicy flavor. These oils are audaciously bold and pair magnificently with a hearty charred steak or grilled lamb. In contrast, other artisanal olive oils are pressed from olives that yield softer, more delicate nuances. These will perfectly complement—without overpowering—your delicate baked halibut. Still, other olives naturally yield a greener, more herbaceous oil that will crown your salad greens and veggies with farm-fresh flavor.
Discovering these delectable differences in fine artisanal olive oils is such fun. And, as any master chef will tell you, educating your palate in this way is one of the great secrets of elevating your favorite dishes to new heights of flavor and satisfaction that you, your family, and your guests will love.
Our Recommendation:
The moment you twist the cap off one of these outstanding just-pressed oils, inhale its harvest-fresh bouquet and savor its garden-like taste, you’ll know that this is how fine olive oil is meant to be enjoyed. But where can you find such oils, since they’re not available in stores?
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Where to Buy the Best Olive Oil
You can find superb, award-winning olive oils by doing your homework online. Located around the world are quite a few dedicated artisanal producers who bypass the Mafia’s counterfeiting factories and instead offer their award-winning harvest-fresh olive oils directly to consumers.
However, if you’d just as soon save yourself the time and hassle of researching dozens of online olive oil producers, sometimes having to decipher websites in foreign languages and arranging your own international shipping, there’s a convenient service that brings the world’s finest harvest-fresh olive oils right to your door.
Meet T.J. Robinson, the Olive Oil Hunter
A onetime chef and gourmet food writer/editor, T.J. came up with the idea of hunting for the world’s best, freshest artisanal extra virgin olive oils (EVOO)—and flying them straight from the new harvest at their peak of flavor directly to the kitchens of America’s top gourmet chefs, passionate foodies, and lovers of natural, healthy foods. He does this through his fast-growing Fresh-Pressed Olive Oil Club.
Joining the club gives you direct access to the purest, freshest, most flavorful, most nutritious olive oils from a wide array of gold-medal-winning olive oil producers. These olive oils are personally hand-selected by T.J. Robinson exclusively for his club members and are available nowhere else in America. As we tasted for ourselves, they are out-of-this-world delicious. And, when you join, there’s no commitment to buy anything else.
Once we tried T.J.’s olive oils, we fell madly in love with them and recommend them to everyone we know.
Because these harvest-fresh olive oils are artisanal, they are more expensive than ordinary store-bought olive oils. Are they worth it? We certainly think so, but you can judge for yourself for just $1. That’s because T.J. is inviting you and our other readers to try your own home taste test for just $1 to help him cover shipping.
A $39 Bottle for a Buck?
T.J.’s unique Fresh-Pressed Olive Oil Club is one of the most customer-friendly companies we’ve ever come across. Unlike some other clubs, there’s never a minimum commitment or obligation to buy anything. Every olive oil comes with a no-questions-asked, 100% money-back guarantee. And if you ever decide to ask for your money back on a given shipment, you don’t even have to return the oil. His outstanding customer service team graciously takes care of your refund request immediately.
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For our readers, T.J. and his Fresh-Pressed Olive Oil Club have reserved a strictly limited number—240 bottles (20 cases). Problem is, we’ve got many thousands of subscribers, so these 240 bottles are likely to go fast, and it’s first-come, first served.
In addition, this $39-Bottle-for-a-Buck offer expires at the end of this month, which will be here before we know it. If you miss it, you’ll have to wait until the next harvest season and hope he repeats the offer.
This is the kind of generous, fair-minded offer we like to present to you, as one of our valued readers, for products we love and admire. And it’s an excellent opportunity, perhaps the first in your life, to experience the exceptionally vibrant and delicious taste of extra virgin olive oil just pressed at the new harvest. As we experienced, it adds new layers of flavor and deep-down satisfaction to your crisp salads and veggies, grilled meats, delicate fish, toasted nuts and seeds, and other favorite dishes. And, as we mentioned, these super-healthful oils are also perfect as carriers for your essential oils.
The publicity this oil is getting is quite something. Foodies, celebrity chefs, and food writers are raving as well. For example, Larry Olmsted, the award-winning food and travel journalist, recently wrote this in his New York Times best-selling book, Real Food/Fake Food.
“I now get most of my oil from T.J. Robinson’s Fresh-Pressed Olive Oil Club, and every time I open a bottle, my kitchen literally fills up with the smell of fresh crushed olives—the scent explodes out of the bottle. Just breaking the seal transports me to Italy or Spain or Chile.”
When you click on the link below, you’ll see similar comments from many other olive oil lovers as well. If you’re interested, try a bottle for just $1 and taste for yourself.
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