Öko-Test breaks down olive oil: Almost all of them are contaminated with mineral oil - only one is clean
Created: 04/28/2022, 05:04
Sunflower oil is scarce and many consumers turn to olive oil.
But that doesn't come off well at all in the new "Öko-Test".
Impurities worry the testers.
Now, of all times, when customers are standing in front of empty supermarket shelves and olive oil
could score as
an alternative to sunflower oil , it's slipping away.
Out of 19 products, the magazine "Öko-Test" gave only one the top rating "very good", unfortunately repeating the disastrous test result from 2019, in which mineral oil was also found in large quantities and in almost all products.
Is it particularly difficult to prevent mineral oil where a lot of oil from different origins flows together?
This is probably the only way to explain why the experts
only found one product in their current
olive oil test (issue 5/2022) that they can recommend.
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This oil is the test winner in the Öko-Test Olive Oil 2022
Only in the
"Rapunzel Crete Extra Virgin Olive Oil" (21.98 euros per liter) did the eco-testers find no mineral oil
, and this olive oil also performed best in the test for the other criteria tested.
Two others managed at least a "satisfactory".
The remaining 16 products (with a price range of 5.19 to 23.98 euros per liter) were rated “poor” and “unsatisfactory” and thus failed with a bang.
A disappointing result that customers should keep in mind in front of the supermarket shelf.
Because not only the mineral oil contamination is a problem, but also the
taste quality
.
A flop: Of the 19 olive oils tested, 16 failed the "Öko-Test".
© Christin Klose/dpa-tmn
Olive oil in the Öko-Test 2022: In addition to mineral oil, it also tastes rancid
What's going on with the olive oil producers?
In the laboratory, the experts not only found extremely high levels of contamination with mineral oil.
In addition, several oils were also found to have a
bad smell and taste (“rancid”, “muddy”)
.
So it's no wonder that in these cases the testers even questioned the "extra virgin" quality class stated on the bottles.
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Öko-Test explains: This is how the mineral oil components get into the olive oil
The consumer advocates from Öko-Test suspect that
lubricating oils
with which the olives come into contact during the harvest, such as harvesting machines that shake the olives from the tree, are the entry route.
Or chainsaws that farmers use to cut back trees during harvest.
During production, too, the olives come into contact with machines and conveyor belts and thus with lubricating oils, which then also end up in the bottles and thus with the end consumer.
(dpa/ante)
