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By: Clara Kistner
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Unsatisfactory quality at ever higher prices – this is how 23 olive oils from the supermarket perform in the current product test.
Whether in salad dressing, for frying, or plain and dipped with a piece of white bread - olive oil is versatile and popular.
Accordingly, most households always have a bottle of this fine wine in their pantry.
Olive oil is also healthy, although not exactly cheap.
Even conventional olive oil from the supermarket seems to be getting more expensive every year.
In the meantime, however, the quality of the oils drops significantly - this is shown by current test results from the consumer organization Stiftung Warentest.
Olive oil quality is declining due to global warming?
If you like cooking, you probably use olive oil every day.
And even if consumed regularly, the large bottle of oil usually lasts quite a while.
So it's worth buying a slightly more expensive product, right?
Rather less, because even products of the highest quality “extra virgin” now often taste “rancid” and “pungent,” writes Stiftung
Warentest
among the current test results.
Stiftung Warentest: Even the seemingly finest olive oils disappoint in their quality.
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This could, among other things, be related to the advancing climate crisis.
Last but not least, current environmental pollution such as droughts and heat in Mediterranean countries would have an impact on the taste of olive oils.
However, the poor olive harvests not only affect the taste of the oil, the entire EU olive oil production is also suffering from the situation.
Due to declining production, prices have
almost doubled in recent years, according to
Stiftung Warentest .
A liter of olive oil, which was between 5.75 euros and 36 euros in 2022, would now cost between 10.70 and 46 euros.
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Stiftung Warentest: These olive oils were rated “good”.
Of the 23 olive oils tested, only four were classified as “good”.
The extra virgin olive oil “Cosmo di Russo Caieta Olio extra vergine di oliva” (46 euros per liter) performed best with 1.7.
The “Rapunzel Crete extra virgin olive oil (organic)” (34 euros per liter) comes in second with 2.1.
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Shortly followed with 2.3 by the “Alnatura Brat Olive Oil (Organic)” (18.70 euros per liter).
cheapest olive oil in the “good” category.
The final score of 2.5 is another frying olive oil – the “Byodo Brat-Olive Mediterranean (Organic)” (20 euros per liter).
The Stiftung Warentest results had far-reaching consequences for other brands tested: Kaufland and Edeka even withdrew their products from sale.