Olive Oil Tasting Test

I have always fancied my palate to be discerning, I can tell Coke is the real thing, I can believe its not butter, so when I was asked to do a mystery taste test for olive oil one would be a premium single blend extra virgin and the other would be a refined olive oil, this means an oil mixed with several different olive varieties and having undergone a harsh chemical extraction and refining process, yuck sounds horrible already.

 I was up for the challenge.

I do use Olive Oil a lot, always try to buy a good one and as some of you know I use Extra Virgin Olive Oil it as part of my Slimming World diet. Its classed as a healthy Extra.

I set up the test as above, no blindfold for me, thank goodness really as I would have taken a terrible photograph.

I had a tasting guide to run through using my senses.

1 LOOK

Well these two certainly look different A is a dark green yellow, B is almost colourless. I was already making my mind up, the richness of colour pointed to A being a good single squeezing of olives.

2. SMELL

A was a rich fruity aroma, quite intense and reminded me of leafy vegetables, good ones. It definitely had an olive fragrance.

B well it smelt of absolutely nothing, I think I am on the right track here.

3 TASTE

 I was instructed to use bread to dunk into the oil.

A again I could taste an olive flavour, rich, fruity and sweet. I do prefer it drizzled over food than tasting this way, but it was not unpleasant.

B well it tasted of absolutely zilch, it was bland, I had cleaned my palate with water and a little bread, so it was not trying the other first.

So A is the single variety, premium extra virgin olive oil in my opinion and B is the refined oil.

Hope I'm right and I get to find out once I have handed in my results, I will let you know.

As they say so irritatingly on X Factor, you can find out the results after the break......



Disclosure: My post is based upon material provided free of charge for taste test purposes. I have not been paid or otherwise compensated to promote the topic, product or service reviewed in this post.