Massive Fraud in Store-Bought Olive Oil (69% Found to Be FAKE)

(March 2013; source: UC Davis, N.Y. Times, CBS and other Media)

Did you catch the explosive story about widespread olive oil fraud just published in The New York Times?

The article is called “Extra Virgin Suicide,” and it reports that much of the olive oil sold in your local supermarket is adulterated with soybean and other cheap oils. Some of these fake oils are even doused with illegal chemicals to make them look like authentic olive oil.

What’s worse, The New York Times article is just one of many scandalous reports making headlines recently about the illegal, substandard, and sometimes unsafe olive oils being sold in fancy bottles and cans in virtually all American supermarkets and gourmet stores.

For example, independent tests at the University of California, Davis, have discovered that 69% of all store-bought extra virgin olive oils they tested are fake.

“American grocery stores are awash in cheap, fake ‘extra virgins,'” says The Wall Street Journal.

CBS News adds: “Consumers who think they’re buying one of the healthiest foods on the planet often get something very different.”

The good news–there are a few olive oils independently certified to be 100% pure extra virgin (the highest quality). These are the only ones you can trust. But which ones are they and where can you find them?…