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Study finds 82 percent of avocado oil rancid or mixed with other oils:
Consumer demand is rising for all things avocado, including oil made from the fruit. Avocado oil is a great source of vitamins, minerals and the type of fats associated with reducing the risk of heart disease, stroke and diabetes. But according to new research from food science experts at the University of California, Davis, the vast majority of avocado oil sold in the U.S. is of poor quality, mislabeled or adulterated with other oils.
In the country's first extensive study of commercial avocado oil quality and purity, UC Davis researchers report that at least 82 percent of test samples were either stale before expiration date or mixed with other oils. In three cases, bottles labeled as "pure" or "extra virgin" avocado oil contained near 100 percent soybean oil, an oil commonly used in processed foods that's much less expensive to produce.
Journal Reference:
Hilary S. Green, Selina C. Wang. First report on quality and purity evaluations of avocado oil sold in the US [open], Food Control (DOI: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2020.107328)
Why put avocado oil in the bottle when you can use soybean oil instead and pocket the extra profit?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 17 2020, @01:37PM (17 children)
In other news 82% of consumers don't care and 82% of businesses know they won't get caught cheating, so 82% of us live in this nice utopian false reality where we enjoy cheap avocado oil knowing it comes from rancid soybeans. Hey at least we have our proud heritage to make ourselves feel good.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Wednesday June 17 2020, @02:40PM (13 children)
Don't include me in the 82%, I'm not a hipster yuppie anymore, canola oil is good enough for me.
Since it's cheap, the stock moves fast, good chances to be actually the freshest oil on the market (I'll abstain to say the healthiest, though, too much hinges on the source of canola and the extraction process)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 17 2020, @02:48PM (7 children)
OK... now try to think laterally. Hint: it's not about the avocado oil.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 17 2020, @02:55PM (6 children)
I can't, my lateral neurons died a long time ago.
I have this hunch nobody would counterfeit the cheapest product on the market, oil or anything else.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 17 2020, @03:01PM (4 children)
> the cheapest product on the market
Our principles?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday June 17 2020, @03:21PM (3 children)
Those too.
World is moving fast nowadays. If fresh new ideas are two a penny, what do you expect from old, moldy and rancid principles?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 17 2020, @05:33PM (2 children)
> If fresh new ideas are two a penny, what do you expect from old, moldy and rancid principles?
Wow, 6 threads deep and still not getting it.
The point is 82% of us cheerfully chow down the rancid shit as long as someone (preferably in orange make-up and an oversize pantomime suit) tells us it's virgin avocado oil. Nom nom nom.
Still too complicated? Approximately 82% of humans choose to follow a charismatic bully as long as they get told they're winning.
Sorry, can't go any lower than that.
(Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Thursday June 18 2020, @12:26AM (1 child)
Yes, the rabbit hole you fell in is deep.
An (already old... gosh, how the time passes) essay/book-promo by The Bruce: Trust and Society [schneier.com]. You may give both a read and think what happens in a society that put other values (e.g. money) above truth/honesty. Does it sound familiar?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 18 2020, @03:59AM
OK perhaps you're right, it's canola oil.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by driverless on Thursday June 18 2020, @03:25AM
Emerich Juettner spent about tens years counterfeiting one dollar bills [wikipedia.org]. When he was caught he said he counterfeited them so that no-one would ever lose more than a dollar. The seventy-year-old was sentenced to a year in prison and a one dollar fine.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 18 2020, @01:35AM (1 child)
Shilling for Trader Joes's :)
Trader Joe's sells expeller pressed canola oil, so none of the nasty solvents used in the stuff sold by the major brands.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 18 2020, @04:06AM
Uh, you know canola oil is one grade above liquidized excrement right?
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday June 18 2020, @03:04AM (2 children)
Canola is fine for most cooking purposes. Also, you're probably gonna get real canola oil when you buy it since it's about the cheapest oil on the market. Personally, I even prefer it when making salad dressing because I like tasting the salad ingredients more than the dressing.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday June 18 2020, @03:19AM (1 child)
Regarding that "real": very low numbers of oils nowadays are obtained by pressing/heating alone and most of them rely on solvent extraction - it uses hexane extraction [wikipedia.org]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 18 2020, @04:10AM
And rightly so. Solvent extraction (including OMG hexane) and distillation is the way chemists produce 99.99% purity chemicals. Unless of course the terpene profile is important to you.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Wednesday June 17 2020, @08:55PM (2 children)
The problem occurs when getting stuck with the fake stuff can completely denature your attack [youtube.com].
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday June 18 2020, @11:43AM (1 child)
OK. What series is that from?
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Thursday June 18 2020, @09:43PM
"Mitsuboshi Colors", and also consider "Ascendance of a Bookworm" if you want to see someone make shampoo/conditioner out of "avocado" oil.