How to make sure your olive oil is real?

In our kitchen, it is really important to know whether or not it is real when we buy olive oil, which we use on herbal remedy and also to beautify our home. So much so that this healing resource, which has thousands of years history, needs to be completely natural and high quality to take its effects on the field. In this article, we will seek an answer for “How do we understand the real olive oil?”

 

How is real olive oil like?

 

You don’t need to be an expert to understand wheter or not the olive oil you buy is real, you can do real olive oil test with a few methods that you can apply at your home with your own means.

 

The first method that you can try to understand if olive oil is real, is about if its freezing ability. As it is known, all of the monounsaturated oils, slowly solidify when placed in the refrigerator while they are solid at room temperature. If some parts of olive oil you buy don’t freze when it is put in refrigerator, that shows it has added substances. In the same way, when completely real and reliable olive oil is frozen, black spots (olive pieces) are seen in the lower parts.

 

Other answer for the question “How is real olive oil tested?” is price control which is actually quite simple. From an economic perspective, there is a certain amount of price for real olive oil, and there is no possibility that an olive oil under this remarkable level is real.

 

Another way to test olive oil is a simple expirement with a glass of warm water. In elemantary school we all did olive-water expirement while we were learning intensities of the substances. You can also use this experiment to understand if the olive oil is real or not. How is real olive oil like on water surface? When real and high quality olive oil is added to water, first it spreads in the form of bubbles then it rises to the surface of water. When it comes to the tricky olive oil, it remains directly in the form of layer at above.

 

It is quite diffucult to have an idea about olive oil because it is usally placed in tins in raft. In addition, it is completely a wrong method to look at the colour of olive oil for testing it. For this reason, it is very difficult to test the true olive oil before buying it but you can have an idea about its quality by looking at its price. Besides, even if olive oil is real, it must be in a dark glass bottle and its cover must be safe so that it can be consumed healthily. As olive oils in trasnparent glass exposed to light, the chlorophyll inside it is degraded and its quality is lost. Pet-packed olive oils can be very dangerous for health because it can resolve the plastic in it.