Olive Oils - tests, reviews, commentaries, etc

[meltam]

Thanks for the detail on the Olive Centre and researchers. One thing that does stand out is
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We are grateful to Corto Olive, California Olive Ranch, and the California Olive Oil Council for their financial support of this research.[/quote]

Referring to @AliceRichard’s post about artificial sweeteners:

@AliceRichard

The University of Sydney recently published an interesting paper on bias in artificial sweetener research. This is what they found: “Artificial sweetener industry sponsored reviews were more likely to have favorable results than non-industry sponsored reviews, as well as favorable conclusions.”

This olive oil industry support makes me question whether there are similar inherent biases in this olive oil research. This time to show that the American olive oil is superior, even if the foreign stuff passes the test.

@phb

Our chemical tests indicate that the samples usually pass the IOC’s chemical tests even when those samples failed two IOC-accredited sensory panels.