When we use olive oil in the church or at home to light our oil lamps or to serve with food, it should be the real thing.
However, most olive oil sold in stores is not olive oil. It may only contain 10 to 20 percent olive oil. In fact, the money made from this unfair trade of deliberately contaminated olive oil is more lucrative than the profits made by the cocaine or marijuana cartels. There are several books, online articles, and TV shows on the Olive Oil Cartel and how they pervert good olive oil.
On Dr. Oz, it was noted that fully 60 percent of the extra virgin olive oil on store shelves is contaminated by the mafia with dangerous solvents, food coloring, artificial flavorings, rancid Turkish hazel nut oil, GMO canola oil, and other additives.
For people with nut allergies or chemical sensitivities, consumption of this contaminated olive oil could prove fatal. Burning this oil in church can make people sick, damage the church walls and icons with soot, or even start a fire.
To determine if olive oil is pure, there are several tests:
b The refrigerator test is the first one that should be performed.[/b]
If placed in a refrigerator overnight, olive oil will solidify. If the so-called extra virgin olive oil partially solidifies, then it is contaminated, and should be immediately returned to the store where purchased with a complaint lodged.
b Extra Virgin Olive Oil is usually placed in dark colored bottles to prevent exposure to sunlight. [/b]
b There is a California Certificate of Purity,[/b] mentioned on the Dr. Oz Show, that should be present on all bottles of Extra Virgin Olive Oil manufactured in California.
Tests comparing visual qualities of color or taste and smell are not conclusive as artificial colors, flavors, and aromas are added by the Mafia to fool the most astute connoisseur.
