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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: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday June 18 2020, @12:11AM (6 children)
It has become the Official Explanation from certain propaganda sources for why younger people are poorer than their parents are, while conveniently leaving out any structural economic factors like the largest recession since the 1930's, degree inflation, real wage cuts, higher rents, and massively higher college tuition.
And yes, I guess it's the idea of taking avocado and putting it on toast. I've never tried it, but it sounds like it would be decently good eats.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 18 2020, @01:30AM (2 children)
Yes, but would you pay $18 for it?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 18 2020, @04:13AM
Only if I wanted to DIE, oh my GOD!
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday June 18 2020, @07:15PM
$18 seems a bit steep, yes. I'd expect those kinds of prices in tourist traps or major cities where everything is more expensive, but not normally, and I suspect that whoever is alleging kids are pouring money into avocado toast are looking for the most expensive price they can find and pretending that it's typical rather than an outlier.
But the real point I'm after is that the people complaining about kids and their (mostly imaginary) $18 avocado toast are frequently giving their lectures in frivolous luxury spending from an $18,000-per-year golf course or an $18 million yacht, which means I'm going to assume that they should in no way be taken seriously.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday June 18 2020, @03:07AM (1 child)
It's good in the way that guacamole is good. It's more filling than you would think, and makes a decent breakfast on its own.
It's not worth making a thing out of it, but it's a good option to use up avocado if you ever find yourself with too many ripening at once.
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(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday June 18 2020, @11:48AM
If you are getting desperate with your oversupply of avocados, you could also eat them without the toast.
(Score: 2) by Kitsune008 on Friday June 19 2020, @02:57AM
Ah, got it. So my initial reaction was not far off base.
As for avocados, you all are MORE than welcome to my share.
*shudder and gag*
I find them utterly disgusting in both taste and aroma, and would rather eat slugs...at least slugs slide downthroat easily, and without much taste compared to avocado.
And guacamole? It looks and smells as bad as anything I have observed in babies diapers, so I avoid it like the Plague.
At least with scorpions, once you pinch the stinger and poison sac off, toss them into the coals off a campfire until they sizzle and pop, they taste like dry roasted cashews.