Olive oil – is it completely safe?

Olive oil – is it completely safe?

QUESTION:

Olive oil is it completely safe? Can you please help me understand this. We consider olive oil safe in general but I hear some people start saying that some processing aids might be applied to olive oil too. If methods tomato oil product cheaper exist what can stop them from applying it to olive oil? Why do we consider cold extract olive oil safe, while sunflower oil extracted the best possible way is still considered best to avoid. Thank you

ANSWER:

Nothing is completely safe anymore unless a detailed audit has been conducted to give you that assurance. Every single product on the supermarket shelf, can have processing aids used (and not declared). There is a lot of manipulation regarding those processing aids and many manufacturers do not want to disclose the details of them.

I attempted to do this work on behalf of the AFK community with the Additive Free Marketplace. Every ingredient and processing aid had been reviewed and analysed to give you that assurance.

However we have to crawl before we can walk…. The Additive Free Advocates membership is designed to provide the info to people that are wanting it to make the best decisions they can. We need a bigger movement before we can move to certification of products (ingredients and processing aids). Or…perhaps I need to create a product line (might be easier and quicker in comparison) that you know is clean and free of processing aids lol!

In the interim, until the movement is bigger (COVID has put this on the back burner for most families, thrust into survival mode now) the Additive Free Advocates membership provides guidance (based on what has been declared on the label) as a low cost option instead.

If you are concerned, you are best visiting the producer, and understanding their process. Get as local as you can. Back to how we used to be.

In regards to your second point: generally sunflower oil is seen as being more of an inflammatory oil than olive oil to the body.

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