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Whole food just means "unprocessed". For example, rather than eating olive oil, which is an extract of olives, I eat olives. Rather than eating peanut butter which has all sorts of additives, I eat ground (aka buttered) peanuts. I sweeten with date syrup (blended dates and water). Etc.
I can see you're from the US.
Here when you get olive oil, it's olive oil. When you get peanut butter, it's crunched up peanuts (maybe with a bit of salt).
Having bought foodstuffs in your country, I kind of understand how people get fed up with the whole thing.
The olive oil I buy is 100%. I have never even heard of an olive oil that is sold cut. And every single time I bought it was in the US.
Last time I was in the US, I couldn't find any olive oil. Every bottle said "olive oil" and in microscopic characters underneath "among many other oils". This would be insanely illegal on the other side of the Atlantic.
Yeah strong doubt on this. I want to see labels from the trip. Use olive oil all the time and would know.
Well, that was in Hoboken. Maybe they're exempt from the global US olive oil market.
Just a few minutes ago I was in my local store. Of the three kinds for sale not one of them said anything about other oils besides olive oil in it or anything to imply it wasn't pure. Made a point to check based on your comment.
You have a good store, you're lucky. That's not my experience.
Yeah luck. Consistent luck repeatedly for multiple years. Makes perfect freaken sense.
Sorry your trip was ruined by a totally real and not fabricated bottle of olive oil that you found somehow someway.
It isn't a question of regulation it is market forces. Anyone willing to pay the extra for it is not going to be willing to pay the extra for 99% of it. Look check my profile if you don't believe me, I am a near daily baker and I use olive oil for nearly every loaf. Which means I pay more and I sure as shit not going to pay more for something fake when I can pay a few pennies more for the real deal. Never even once seen a cut olive oil for sale.
Also where did you even find it in Hoboken? That city is nothing but bars and apartment buildings. Sure it wasn't over the line in Jersey City?