{"id":20237,"date":"2015-05-04T23:21:42","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T06:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=20237"},"modified":"2015-05-04T23:41:05","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T06:41:05","slug":"olive-oils-and-festivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/olive-oils-and-festivals\/","title":{"rendered":"Olive Oils and Festivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/sylmarolive.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: At the Sylmar Olive Festival guests get\u00a0in free by dressing like a Roman, Greek\u00a0or Egyptian!<\/p>\n<p>Would it surprise you to know that the majority of imported, extra virgin olive oils tested by UC Davis did not meet labeling standards? In the book, &#8220;Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil,&#8221; author\u00a0\u00a0Tom Mueller explains what it takes to be considered a quality olive oil, and why so many fail. The UC Davis study noted that\u00a0failing oils were hydrolyzed, oxidized, of poor quality, and\/or adulterated with cheaper refined oils. \u00a0While it did show only one of\u00a0three California olive oils tested was not up to standards, there&#8217;s no doubt that you&#8217;ll discover exceptional\u00a0products at the source. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/farms\/california-olives.html\">California is the olive oil capital of the nation<\/a> and a great place to develop a passion for the healthier alternative to canola, soy oil, margarine and butter.\u00a0Also <a href=\"http:\/\/seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-olive-festivals.html\">check out these\u00a0olive festivals<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: At the Sylmar Olive Festival guests get\u00a0in free by dressing like a Roman, Greek\u00a0or Egyptian! Would it surprise you to know that the majority of imported, extra virgin olive oils tested by UC Davis did not meet labeling standards? In the book, &#8220;Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil,&#8221; author\u00a0\u00a0Tom Mueller [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20237"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}