How Can You Tell If Your Olive Oil Is Counterfeit? We hate to break it to you, but that might not be real olive oil on your salad Feb 19, 2016 | 2:29 pm By Dan Myers

There's a lot of fraudulent extra virgin olive oil out there. You may not realize it, but there’s a huge black market out there for counterfeit olive oil. In fact, reported on a recent episode of 60 Minutes, about 70 percent of all the olive oil you’ll encounter is inauthentic in some way. Studies have found that at least 55 percent of extra virgin olive oil fails to meet extra-virgin requirements, and in others chlorophyll and olive scent are added to make subpar oil appear higher-quality. It’s all olive oil, for the most part; it’s just not extra virgin olive oil.