Rox's EVOO(Olive Oil) for sale on Amazon!

[ronjhall]

Hope Rox is getting some of her oil shipped to Amazon soon.
Saw this post on Facebook yesterday. Thought it would be some good reading until Rox gets caught up.
The 14 Fake Olive Oil Companies Are Revealed Now – Avoid These Brands

 

[goeduck]

Hope Rox is getting some of her oil shipped to Amazon soon.
Saw this post on Facebook yesterday. Thought it would be some good reading until Rox gets caught up.
The 14 Fake Olive Oil Companies Are Revealed Now Avoid These Brands

I saw that information a year or so ago and switched to Califirnia Olive Ranch at that time.

Hard to believe that some of these companies are advertising as extra virgin and still getting away with it. Buyer beware.

 

[ultrarunner]

Looks like I have been duped... Safeway, Bertolli and Star...

Costco Kirkland made the good list.

 

[dmccarty]

Looks like I have been duped... Safeway, Bertolli and Star...

Costco Kirkland made the good list.

Me too. I expect all of us have been duped based on that list. The one brand we used to buy for years and years was on that list. It did taste good though.

Now we are buying the EVOO from Costco for general cooking and Rox's EVOO for the special meals. :licking::licking::licking:

Later,
Dan

 

[rox]

Thank you to everyone for their sincere condolences, it means a lot. Just a kind word means a lot. As it gets closer to February I get sadder because that is always when I used to go stay with my parents. Winters in northern Illinois are hard on everybody but especially on the elderly who can't get out in the snow and cold. That is why I always picked the worst time of year to go, because actually that is when I was needed most. Personally I would have rather gone in the nice weather months but I never did, I always went when I could do the most good. I probably should stop talking about it, but sometimes just need to talk and I know so many of you so well here on TBN.

I got a notice from British airways today that they changed my flight time for my February flight, that kind of brought everything back up for me. It's hard to have your mother go like this when it didn't have to be. It didn't have to be that way. It just didn't. Nobody would listen to me and I just could not leave and be with her. I could not give up an entire years worth of my income when my mother had 3 other children to help her. I couldn't do that to my husband. They moved her into the nursing home the exact first day we started pressing olives and she died on the last day we pressed. Why did they have to do that? Why couldn't they have waited just a little bit until I could be there to help my mother? It's just so sad. Exhale, sigh. Sigh, sigh, sigh.

 

[rox]

I saw that information a year or so ago and switched to Califirnia Olive Ranch at that time.


Hard to believe that some of these companies are advertising as extra virgin and still getting away with it. Buyer beware.

This doesn't surprise me. The thing is, these big companies don't own their own olive groves, if they own some they do not own enough to fully produce all the olive oil they sell under their brand name. They are buying the olive oil from many small and mid sized farmers like me. The adulteration does not necessarily happen at the Big Brand warehouses and production facilities. The adulteration can happen much further down the supply chain as well. Your best bet is buying directly from the producer, or grower like you are with California Olive Ranch.

 

[rox]

I got the lab reports back on our last harvest and they are OUTSTANDING!
To be Extra Virgin in Europe you must have
0.8 or Less in Acidity
20 parts per something, or less, in Peroxide
We are LOW, LOW, LOW, Yea! 0.1 and 0.2 in acidity.
Low in acidity, very low in peroxide and HIGH in polyphenols.
I pay extra to get the polyphenols tested because I think people want to know that information.
I have read a lot of olive oil research on polyphenols in olive oil and my sense is this.
Anything over 500 is good, that is a good polyphenol content. Anything over 700 is HIGH.
I am including a copy of the lab report with each bottle and tin of olive oil we are sending to Amazon. I slip it in before I wrap it in bubble wrap. I bet people are going to really like seeing a lab report on the exact olive oil they purchased. I will attach the lab reports here, I got he PhD Chemist to give me the lab report in English as well. This is my third year working with her on that, getting her to publish it in English as well. Look for the varietal of olive on the lab report, I circled it.
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[rox]

Here are a couple of pics I took today of our bottling operation. It took days to cut all the bubble wrap for what we ship to Amazon, you can see it in the pictures, we stack it up everywhere. In the mill pressing room, that is orders for exclusive private country clubs mainly.
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[Bird]

I tried to look at the Attachments and on each one, all I got was:
"Invalid Attachment specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator"

Are others getting the same thing?

 

[ronjhall]

I tried to look at the Attachments and on each one, all I got was:
"Invalid Attachment specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator"

Are others getting the same thing?

I got that message on my iPhone. They did show up OK on my PC.
Sorry, Bird those pictures do not show on my computer either.