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Most Olive Oil Is Real and That Is Exactly Why the Scam Works - The 5 Red Flags, the Court Cases, and the One Compound Your Bottle May Have Already Lost With Ben Azadi | #1344

The Ben Azadi Show

Ben Azadi

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Fitness, Nutrition

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Myoscience Vitamin D3 + K2 (exclusive 20% off for my audience): https://bit.ly/3R6StTH  Pre-order Keto Flex Revised and get free bonuses at: https://bit.ly/4wKG1sM    The viral claim that 69% of olive oil is fake is misleading. The largest U.S. testing program ever run, overseen by a biostatistician at Yale, found almost no adulteration in the brands that make up 85% of the market. So your bottle is probably real olive oil. The real scam is quieter. Age, oxidation, and grade games can leave you paying a premium price for a bottle that has lost the one compound that made olive oil healthy in the first place. Ben Azadi breaks down the five red flags he watches for, the real court cases behind them, and a five second test you can run at home today. Key takeaways: The "69% fake" stat came from a 2010 report funded by California olive growers with an interest in making imports look bad Watch the words "100% pure," a lower refined grade with documented pomace lawsuits behind it A price more than 50% below average and a clear glass bottle are warning signs The harvest date matters far more than the best buy date, aim for oil pressed in the last 12 to 18 months Olive oil's health power comes from polyphenols like oleocanthal, which acts on the same COX enzymes as ibuprofen Oleocanthal fades with heat, light, and age, so old oxidized oil can have almost none left The pepper challenge: a peppery throat sting means real polyphenols are present Find All The Ben Azadi Show Sponsorship Deals ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.ketokamp.com/sponsorship-deals

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0:00.0

Most olive oil isn't helping your health. Actually, it's the opposite. There's a very good

0:06.9

chance the bottle sitting in your kitchen right now has lost the very compounds that make

0:12.1

olive oil one of the healthiest foods on the planet. And what's crazy is that the label could

0:17.6

legally say extra virgin. But here's the part that made me angry,

0:21.6

and it's probably going to make you angry as well. One of the most talked about olive oil

0:25.9

investigations ever conducted found that many imported olive oils labeled extra virgin

0:32.4

failed the standards that consumers thought they were paying for, not because they were fake, but because

0:38.2

they were oxidized, degraded, or defective by the time they reached the shelf. Today I'm going to

0:44.4

reveal the top five olive oil brands that I personally avoid and show you a five second test

0:50.8

that I used to spot bad olive oil before it ever reaches my shopping cart.

0:56.0

And test number four here is the one that almost nobody talks about, because this is the

1:00.0

single biggest and easiest test to know if your olive oil contains these healthy compounds,

1:05.0

or if it's an expensive bottle filled with just stale fat.

1:09.0

So go grab your bottle, because by the end of this lesson,

1:12.4

you're going to know if you've been wasting your money for years. Okay, first I have to clear

1:16.5

something up. Because if you spend some time online researching olive oil, you've probably

1:21.3

come across the article that said 69% of olive oil is fake. Here's the truth. The number is

1:27.4

kind of misleading. Now, it came from a

1:29.6

report from 2010 out of the California Olive Center. Yeah, that's a real center. And the report was

1:36.3

funded by the California olive growers, who, let's be honest, they had a direct interest making sure that imported olive oil looked bad.

1:47.0

And what those samples mostly failed was the sensory taste test for the top extra virgin grade.

1:54.0

Now, filling a taste test is not the same thing as a bottle being secretly filled with like canola oil. In fact, I want

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