Rapeseed oil v Extra virgin olive oil £££

[craig1912]

theplayingmantis said:

Yes they do, although perhaps not Asda. Waitrose and Sainsburys (at least larger Sainsburys) stock CPRO

Yep they do too
https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/shop/search?&sea...

https://groceries.asda.com/product/coconut-seed-nu...

https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/groceries/food...

[C5_Steve]

theplayingmantis said:

craig1912 said:

C5_Steve said:

Just because you can find it on a website doesn't mean there's a lack of it on the shelves....

(I'm sure you were trying to be helpful and not comment on my personal experience).

In my local Asda, there will be multiple shelves full of a variety of olive oil but they'll only sell one or two MAYBE brands of rapeseed oil which are usually sold out as they don't hold the stock levels. You'll find more possibly in the "Foods of World" section but often just in the massive containers.

My point was given the abundance we could produce locally over olive oil, I'm surprised it's not more prevalent.

I think you probably missed my point, and I’m not sure you meant your first line to say what it does.

My point was, that it is in every supermarket as most supermarket Vegetable oil is rapeseed oil which is where most of UK’s production goes. Not the cold pressed virgin variety but non the less rape seed oil.
Saying that most supermarkets also have the cold pressed virgin stuff too- even Aldi and Lidl!

Yes they do, although perhaps not Asda. Waitrose and Sainsburys (at least larger Sainsburys) stock CPRO

Yes sorry first line was wrong my mistake.

Seems I may be getting confused with CP and regular RS oil then being sold as veg oil (although I'm not 100% sure I understand still!).

I know that from actually looking on shelves, the bottle labelled as Rapeseed oil (non-cold press as well) are far far outstripped by olive oil. But that may be because, if I understand you correctly, they're just labelled as veg oil?

[Sway]

Yep, they're just labelled at veg oil.

[C5_Steve]

Sway said:

Yep, they're just labelled at veg oil.

Interesting! Every day's a school day and all that

[theplayingmantis]

some veg oil has a picture the label of rapeseed.

i always thought an odd name, as veg all infers grinding up carrots and turnips etc to my childlike brain, but i rape is a vegetable given its family, so technically correct.