{"id":25,"date":"2026-06-30T19:45:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T19:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olivefather.com\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2026-06-30T19:45:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T19:45:41","slug":"why-not-supermarket-oil","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/olivefather.com\/?page_id=25","title":{"rendered":"Why Not Supermarket Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fair question. Here&#8217;s the honest answer.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Because most of it is a blend you can&#8217;t trace<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBottled in Italy\u201d often just means it was bottled there \u2014 from oils grown anywhere. No grove, no harvest date, no acidity on the label. When the origin is hidden, there&#8217;s usually a reason.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Because price tells the truth<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Real extra virgin olive oil is expensive to make: hand harvesting, low yields, cold pressing, fast processing. If a bottle costs less than a sandwich, something was cut \u2014 usually quality, often honesty.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What we do instead<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One farm. One family. A named grove. A harvest year and acidity printed on every bottle. More expensive, yes. Also actually what it says it is. We&#8217;re not against affordable food. We&#8217;re against pretending.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fair question. Here&#8217;s the honest answer. Because most of it is a blend you can&#8217;t trace \u201cBottled in Italy\u201d often just means it was bottled there \u2014 from oils grown anywhere. No grove, no harvest date, no acidity on the label. When the origin is hidden, there&#8217;s usually a reason. Because price tells the truth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-25","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivefather.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivefather.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivefather.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivefather.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivefather.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olivefather.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivefather.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}