Paleo Diet and Paleolithic Diet Questions & Answers

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I love olives; they're my main source of salty/sour flavor in my diet. I eat maybe 2-3 lbs. a month, all from olive bars in NYC. I was kind of shocked the other day when I was at Westside Market and a lot of their "fresh" (plastic containers rather than glass jars) olives were labeled as having CANOLA OIL in them. WTF? I asked about it, and nobody could give me a straight answer; mostly they speculated that, "No, this must be an error."

Now I'm getting paranoid. Just as I was unwittingly eating a significant amount of soy oil at Chipotle on a regular basis, I fear that this may be happening with olives too (but with canola). Help me not have to ask everywhere I go: If a bucket of olives has an oddly thick oil, is this a sign of something? Do I just have to ask who a store's olive distributor is and be able to know from that? There's no way I'm going to start importing pallets of hard olives and home curing them.

flag	asked Apr 1 2011 at 20:04 Zev Averbach 769●1●4●12

	It would be nice if manufacturers replaced all soy and canola with olive oil. I dunno how that would work out for olives, though. I bit redundant, don't you think? – Stabby Apr 1 2011 at 20:14
	Does Chipotle exclusively use soy oil? – WyldKard Apr 1 2011 at 21:00
	Ahhhh...you figured out the Chipotle secret.. – Tim Apr 1 2011 at 22:09
	This kinda sucks...because I was about to get some olives...Nandos has an Olive Mix – Tim Apr 1 2011 at 22:14
	Chipotle uses non-gmo soybean oil in their black beans, pinto beans, red and green salsas. But it's still soybean oil. – StalkingMySupper Apr 1 2011 at 23:24

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midwesterner · Answer 1 · 2011-04-02 20:55:34Z UTC

My local grocer sells calamata olives in soybean oil. When last at Whole Foods, I found exactly ONE olive variety that was in actual olive oil and not some seed oil.

Then I discovered the hard way that olives don't work with the paleo diet for me. So the occasional martini will go from three to one.

Uzito · Answer 2 · 2011-04-01 22:20:43Z UTC

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I've checked the olive bar at my local Wegmans and indeed, canola oil is in 95% of the olives they sell. Most likely yours are packed in the same pseudo-healthy canola oil.

answered Apr 1 2011 at 22:20

Uzito
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True, but I do like that the bar is clearly labelled and does not make me guess! – Adam Crafter Apr 2 2011 at 11:55

Mark · Answer 3 · 2011-04-01 21:51:00Z UTC

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Why do you get the olives in oil and not brine?

answered Apr 1 2011 at 21:51

Mark
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i think some of the olives are in brine; it isn't always obvious to me. – Zev Averbach Apr 3 2011 at 6:04

pjnoir · Answer 4 · 2011-04-01 20:09:07Z UTC

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Canola is cheap and is used EVERYWHERE...and it sucks but it pays to do your own cooking- its fun learning btw and find a real source and buy bulk. And by all means tell them that these olives are unexceptable.

answered Apr 1 2011 at 20:09

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	I just had to tell a local maker of sauces that I would not be buying their main product because it was based on Canola oil. Sadness. – Adam Crafter Apr 2 2011 at 15:56
	I hear you. Try bringing them a print out on how that oil is made. I think when people know about the beach and solvents and deodorizers, they made change. Remember, there was ONLY olive oil for a long long time. It works just fine. – pjnoir Apr 4 2011 at 17:12

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