Eight major olive oil brands (mainly for beauty)

1. Watsons (the largest health and beauty chain store in China);

2. DHC Die Cui Poetry (Japan, 1972)

3. Monini Olive Oil (Italy, 1965);

4. Argolis (Crete, Greece, with a history of more than 5,500 years) );

5. Agia (Rasparta Region, Sparta Group);

6. Huayuan Life (Beijing Huayuan Life Company, Crete, Greece) Island raw materials);

7. Crete-Gold (Beijing Golden Olive International Trading Co., Ltd.);

8. Berio (a brand of Scheraff Olive Oil Company)

(Mainly edible)

1. Duoli Olive Oil (a brand of Shanghai Jiage Food Co., Ltd.)

2. Olivoila (Italy) High-quality olive oil)

3. Yibali-Pinli (Spanish olive oil brand, agent of Beijing Pinli Food Co., Ltd.)

4. Oule Lamasia (1940 , Spanish Ole Masil brand)

5. Luhua Olive Oil (China Famous Trademark, Chinese Famous Brand, Luhua Group)

6. Oliver Asia (Qingdao Asia Trading Co., Ltd.)

7. Golden Olive Oil (Beijing Golden Olive International Trade Co., Ltd.)

8. Tianyuanle Olive Oil (a subsidiary of Fuzhou Tianyuanle Olive Oil) Brand)

9. Crete Land (Greek brand, a brand of Tianjin Victory Food)

10. Saibao (Shenzhen Dongfeng Industrial Co., Ltd.)

Other well-known olive oil brands

Earl BORGES, Golden Caesar, Fulinmen, Life Products, Lazmas, Solon, White Leaf (Spain), Corroth (Spain), Dashu (Spain), Weimeijialu

No matter how the sales staff tell you what is unique about the olive oil in their hands, such as being produced in a specific region, having several stars, being able to promote blood circulation and health, etc. , they all think they are putting x, just look at the official label of the olive oil and you can understand a lot of things. Because 90% of olive oil is mainly produced in Mediterranean countries such as Spain, Italy, and Greece (because olive trees are only suitable for growing in Mediterranean climates) these countries are basically EU countries, and food packaging instructions must comply with EU standards, so Regardless of the wide variety of imported olive oil brands, their grades are unified.

The best grade is: extra virgin (extra virgin in Spanish). This is virgin olive oil. Compared with the oil currently produced in our country, this oil has not been refined and has not been subjected to high temperatures. , only if it is pressed at low temperature, its nutrients can be preserved. Interested friends can check the efficacy of olive oil online, so I won’t go into too much detail here.

Here, by the way, let’s talk about the general production process of the vegetable oils we often eat, such as soybean oil or palm oil. They are all oils obtained by chemical leaching, that is, they are soaked and extracted with chemicals. The oil extraction rate of the leaching method is very high, thus reducing the cost. However, the leaching method may obviously have adverse reactions to the oil, at least to the psychology of the people who eat the oil. The crude oil obtained through the leaching method is dark brown and very turbid. It then goes through four high-temperature and high-pressure refining processes: decolorization, deodorization, etc. The crude oil becomes lighter and clearer each time, and finally it is stripped. It's clean, it's a very transparent oil, a little light yellow. As you can imagine, there are no nutrients in it, except for the lubricant for cooking.

Even the peanut oil obtained by pressing (the crude oil of peanut oil is as red as blood) has to be refined at high temperatures, and the oil that is finally sold has no nutrients.

Consumers don’t even think about the vitamin A oil that is popular nowadays. If the oil is nutritious, why should it be added with vitamin A?

To go a step further, let’s go on to talk about the next level of olive oil, which is refined oil, (pure) or nothing labeled, just olive oil (Oliver oil). This is what many Chinese labels are. 100% olive oil is actually just a kind of oil that has been obtained through the above-mentioned refining process.

The only difference is that he blends 10-20% of virgin olive oil before leaving the factory to increase its fragrance. Many merchants are selling this kind of oil, saying that it is the best.

What is even more annoying is that some merchants will sell a kind of residual oil as high-end olive oil. This type of olive oil is labeled: pomace or refined, and Italian residual oil is labeled sansa. There is usually 4% residual oil in the pomace left after initial pressing. The refinery recycles the pomace, extracts the oil by chemical leaching, and then refines the oil to obtain the oil. This kind of oil caused food poisoning in Spain in 1991, and several people died. In 1992, it was banned from import by China Customs. Many unscrupulous merchants sell this oil to consumers because it is cheap.

Virgin olive oil does have many health care effects, but it is not as miraculous as the sellers claim. It cannot be done once you eat it. But using virgin olive oil for makeup is actually more economical, because it is the base oil for all oil-based cosmetics. Some people ask if the extra virgin olive oil they eat can be applied to their face. That is yes, because anything that is edible can be applied to the face, but things that are applied to the face may not be edible.

Let’s talk about price. In Carrefour in Europe, the average virgin olive oil is about 3.20 euros/liter. With import tax, the general cost price of dealers is about 45 yuan/liter. Compared with China, olive oil is a necessary oil in Europe, so the markup rate in supermarkets is relatively low. The markup rate for imported food in Chinese supermarkets is generally 20%, which greatly hinders the popularity of olive oil. General residual oil is about 60% of the price of virgin olive oil.

The above mentioned olive oil is purely imported. If even the front label is in Chinese characters, I can’t say anything about the olive oil packaged in China. It is out of EU food control, many things Anything can happen