olive oil

pink_princess

luckylady0 wrote: »

I find this happens with a number of unrefined or cold pressed oils particularly extra virgin olive oil, coconut oil, neem oil etc. The olive oils I've seen do this seem to solidify in a honey comb looking formation.

Coconut oil is solid, very like lard to look at.

pink_princess

Edwardia wrote: »

Olive oil goes solid in the fridge.

I never knew that, I wonder if I could use it to make bombs with then, like coconut oil bombs?

I feel an experiment coming on

Steve059

OP, have you experienced stomach pain after injesting cold, cloudy olive oil since the episode a year ago?

luckylady0

pink_princess wrote: »

Coconut oil is solid, very like lard to look at.

It is just about solid at room temperature and solid at colder, the high quality ones have a crystalline texture when cold. In Summer or warm to hot temperatures it is liquid unless kept in the fridge or freezer.

As for the olive oil, I've seen them solidify in cooler temps like in warehouses or as mentioned, in the fridge. They shouldn't make anyone sick though.

Fire_Fox

buzi wrote: »

The colour doesnt bother me and the only reason im bothered by the cloudy stuff is cause i started to get stomach pains from it

Highly likely to be a coincidence.

stephen77

In pre-packed salad you buy from retailers can often come with a olive oil dressing sachet.
As the salads are kept in fridge these often set. If they were making people ill. 5,000+ people would have been ill a week.

sophlowe45

This is the reason why I posted the link to the Guardian article which says that olive oil is prone to being mixed with other oils and still being passed off as olive oil.

Perhaps the oil the OP used was not just olive oil, but mixed with something else.

stephen77

sophlowe45 wrote: »

This is the reason why I posted the link to the Guardian article which says that olive oil is prone to being mixed with other oils and still being passed off as olive oil.

Perhaps the oil the OP used was not just olive oil, but mixed with something else.

you do get mixed oils out there, however it says on the ingredient dec what oils are used. Plus the other oils are most likely to have a colder melting point.

Still should not make the OP ill.

buzi

Ive used the same olive oil for pass year or so, the only time i got stomach pains was when i used one bottle with the cloudy stuff in it. Maybe Im just a one in a million who is allergic to the cloudy stuff!

stephen77

buzi wrote: »

Ive used the same olive oil for pass year or so, the only time i got stomach pains was when i used one bottle with the cloudy stuff in it. Maybe Im just a one in a million who is allergic to the cloudy stuff!

As far as I am aware you are not going to be allergic to a oil.
There are no allergic cocerns with olive oil.
If you were allergic to olive oil you would also be allergic to the bottles when its warm and not cloudy as well.

The cloudiness of the oil is just down to temp.
when you eat it it, the oil soon warms up and back in its liquid state. Thie would happen when going in your mouth.