Olive oil in the test: rancid and mixed with plasticizers - the winners and losers of the Stiftung Warrentest

How to Identify the Good Olive Oil in the Supermarket

Olive oil is often used in the kitchen. But you shouldn’t skip every oil in your diet, as the results of Stiftung Warrentest show. A total of 27 products were tested, of which only two scored “bad.” On the other hand, which brands do well and read more here.

Fruity flavours, bitter moments and pungent notes: It is this interaction that makes good olive oil so special. It’s precisely this harmony that’s needed when the testers at Stiftung Verentest test “extra virgin olive oil” and let it melt on their tongue.

Here are the results of the “Exam” booklet (Version 11/2021:): 27 products were tested, both premium brands and mild and inexpensive olive oils. In total, testers rated 15 products for which they gave a “good” verdict. That’s more than half that, including many organic oils.

Olive Oil in the Test: Here Are the Test Winners

Testers jump with joy when it comes to the two of them test winner goes. spanish organic oil Species-appropriate phenolio (for Amazon) 48 Euro per liter and for Italian Farm’s Gustini Selection Ancient Oil Mill (Zue Gustini) For 40 euros per liter they stand out in terms of taste, brimming with aromas of hay, almond, black pepper and artichoke. Their chemical quality is also top notch. Both were bought online.

Other good olive oils are cheaper in the test: This is the best classic branded oil Bertoli Original (to Amazon), the best discount oil is Lidl Primadonna.

These olive oils also convince in the test

Not all olive oils tested convincingly. Two products only score “bad”.

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The following olive oils are also rated “good”:

Mani Blauel Polyphenol (for amazon)
dmbio (DM. To)
Latzimas (for amazon)
Oil Mill Soling Virgin (for amazon)
Edeka good and cheap (for supermarket24)
Edeka Bio (COM)to Edeka24)
Netto BioBio (To Netto-online)
Nat Wegola (To Netto-online)
Jordan (for amazon)
from Spain (for amazon)
penne olive oil

Seven other oils are rated as “satisfactory”, three as “adequate” and two as “unsatisfactory”.

Plasticizers in Olive Oil: Two Brands Only “Bad”

In the highest quality class “extra virgin”, taste errors are not allowed. The taste of olive oil should also not be rancid. smugglers made this mistake Alnatura Virgin Olive Oil additional firm. It should not have been sold as “extra virgin” and received “poorly”.

Oil and Vinegar Nocellara Olivenöl Native Olivenöl Extra Fails because it is heavily corrupted with DEHP. The high value suggests that the plasticizer may loosen from inappropriate hoses. DEHP may impair fertility and is to be avoided at altitude. This also applies to char oils that are highly contaminated with the mineral oil hydrocarbons Moah and/or Mosh.

However, plasticizers are also found in all other oils – in small amounts in very small amounts. How bad are plasticizers? “They occur almost everywhere in the environment, for example in house dust,” explains Jochen Vetch, the test’s project manager. The food chemist says that one need not worry about the low level. Nevertheless, it is advisable to use less contaminated olive oil here. You can find the detailed test report from Stiftung Warrentest here.

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Olive oil in the test: rancid and mixed with plasticizers – the winners and losers of the Stiftung Warrentest

Olive oil is often used in the kitchen. But you shouldn’t skip every oil in your diet, as the results of Stiftung Warrentest show. A total of 27 products were tested, of which only two scored “bad.” On the other hand, which brands do well and read more here.

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