Nice size good product
Flavor Name: Olive Oil
Size: 25.5 Ounce (Pack of 2)
These cans are a nice size for kitchen use. I usually decant into smaller manageable bottles, but won't have to with these. Nice flavor, not too strong or diluted. The can is beautiful, a cheery kitchen item.
Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2023 by winsome winnie
It’s really olive oil...
Flavor Name: Olive Oil
Size: 25.5 Ounce (Pack of 2)
So...Americans suffer a sad dearth of real olive oil. Oh, you can buy ‘olive oil’ everywhere, but if you look into it, you’ll find basically all of the ‘big’ supermarket brands are...well, not pure. They’re diluted with other kinds of oil (as in not lesser GRADES of olive, but other SPECIES, like soy
bean/grapeseed/etc oil) and if they’re NOT adulterated, they’re not actually extra virgin but rather a lesser grade labeled extra virgin. The FDA basically does not police this because olive oil mixed with say, soybean oil, won’t make you sick, and that’s what they ‘care’ about. You’re not being harmed, just cheated. Well, in my book, that’s still ‘harm’. Plus, we ARE being harmed because so many people are trying to use olive oil for its health benefits...but getting the health benefits is contingent on eating ACTUAL OLIVE OIL. So we’re not getting the healthy effects and we might actually be hurting ourselves. Besides, I just don’t like a dirty cheater. It matters to me. Now, there are only a couple ways to know FOR SURE your oil is 100% legit, which is basically to produce it yourself or be friends with whoever is. Even chemical testing can be faked. But one of the best ways to self-test it is to taste it. We Americans have been bamboozled with this light, neutral-tasting oil, which I admit I like. REAL extra-virgin olive oil (EVOO), as it turns out, is strange to the American palate. It can be fairly BITTER, and has a distinctive peppery taste at the back of your tongue when you swallow it that might actually make you cough depending on the batch! This is the result of various chemical compounds present in the real deal and NOT a sign of bad/rancid/cheap oil. But folks: if you do NOT get any of this pepperiness, it’s a bad sign. Zoe brand provides this slightly bitter taste/peppery aftertaste. It’s very noticeable and again, you might have to ‘make’ yourself eat it at first. That’s the taste of health and longevity!!! Amazon is able to supply this product at a great price, considering real EVOO is generally expensive. Yes, this LOOKS spendy compared to Fillippo Berio or Bertolli or whatever, but that stuff is not ‘real’. A block of real Parmagiano-Reggiano is pricier than the powder stuff in the green jar we all know, but newsflash: that stuff isn’t pure either. Look at the ingredient list. See ‘cellulose’...? That’s the nice way of saying ‘wood pulp’!!! We are all being hornswoggled! You want the real stuff, right? You’re eating it because you heard it was good for you. EVOO actually made out of olives IS good for you. Zoe makes several products in various sizes-they make a non-organic EVOO, this organic EVOO, and a ‘kid’s’ EVOO that is less bitter/peppery. I have tried all three. The kid version IS still bitter/peppery but SIGNIFICANTLY less so, so if you’re scared, start with that product. I don’t personally taste difference between the ‘adult’ versions, I just prefer USDA certified organic when possible (one of the few ‘green’ labels that has legal force)so I buy that. The conventional version is less pricey though. I have the organic and kids’ version on subscription, because frankly sometimes I’m using it for a dish where super-peppery is undesirable. I appreciate the quality of the Zoe product and the stellar price Amazon offers. For an eye-opening read, buy the book ‘Extra Virginity’ by a guy named Mueller (no, another Mueller). It’s a great history of olive oil as well as an expose on the prevalence of fraud in the EVOO industry. Eye opening and absolutely infuriating. Even if you think the health claim is hippie BS, you want what you paid for, right? If you were sold beef tenderloin at x dollars and it turned out to be cat meat worth y dollars, I’d want to be refunded, whether cat steaks turn out to be delicious or not (I’m sure they’re not, but you get what I’m driving at). Buy ‘Extra Virginity’ and some REAL EVOO!!!
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Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2018 by Eats Paste
Delish
Flavor Name: Olive Oil
Size: 25.5 Ounce (Pack of 2)
Eating/cooking. Zoe is the best.
Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2023 by Ready
Good peppery flavor.
Flavor Name: Olive Oil
Size: 25.5 Ounce (Pack of 2)
Good peppery flavor. Can't be sure about freshness though. Company has a lot of variations and sizes unavailable all the time.
Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2023 by Roadhouse
Zoe is best of the economy olive oils
Flavor Name: Olive
Size: 101 Fl Oz (Pack of 1)
It actually tastes like olive oil. America seems the dumping ground for rancid, tasteless, and adulterated olive oils. Its either because our FDA only cares if its safe, not about claims of quality/purity, OR the producers of olive oil think Americans are stupid and dont know what olive oil tastes li
ke. Anyway without paying an arm and a leg for olive oil, Zoe hits that sweet spot of actual non-rancid olive oil that tastes like olive oil.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2023 by Gravely Guy
great product quick delivery
Flavor Name: Olive
Size: 101 Fl Oz (Pack of 1)
great product, quick delivery. something I have used for years. price a couple dollars higher than my usual source who was out of it. Rather have it than wait.
Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2023 by FX Rigger
First 3 litter sent several weeks ago dated 10 month earlier
Flavor Name: Olive
Size: 101 Fl Oz (Pack of 1)
Great oil very bad inventory standards, bottle sent several weeks ago best before date was 1/24 last bottle 3/23 would not have ordered it if I had know this have already opened first can when I get to other one it will 3 or months out of date , bad inventory controls date is on top and bottom of can
easily read nice and big.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2022 by james m.
Necessary kitchen ingredient
Flavor Name: Olive Oil
Size: 25.5 Ounce (Pack of 2)
We have purchased Zoe oil so many times that I must write a favorable review. Good enough taste for straight dipping, economical for cooking, great product.
Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2023 by Frequent reader