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[Crystal W.]

Yeah, it was vile, maybe a bad jar.

[OnTheBayou]

@maba: Yes, that clerk is wrong, and the price is high. Whole Foods has their house brand 365 Organics Virgin for $7 for 14 oz. It's cheaper than the "lesser" quality Spectrum by several dollars.


@Crystal: Didn't you suspect something was wrong? Why blame Spectrum? Spectrum is a very respected name in the health food industry. Even coconut oil will go rancid eventually. It's good for at least a year in the liquid phase (above 76 F,) I know from experience. In the solid phase, probably many years.

[Crystal W.]

Well yeah, but I tried some of their other products and didn't like them either. Probably just me, no biggie.

[Ecala]

I didn't like Spectrum's coconut oil either. It tasted funky.


I buy Jarrow brand coconut oil.. love it.

[goodfriendsam]

Spectrum is owned by Heinz. I REALLY don't like Heinz, so I try to avoid spectrum products.

[OnTheBayou]

I used to try to follow ownerships of corporations and make informed buying decisions, but it is WAY too complicated to waste my life doing that. Even if you know something today, it might well change tomorrow. Corporate ownerships change constantly.


Just because, for instance, Heinz owns Spectrum doesn't mean Spectrum is "bad." For all we know maybe some of the whole foods ideology filters back up to the parent company. Or, maybe it was saved from bankruptcy or something. And maybe that Whole Foods brand CO is Spectrum repackaged for them.


I would ask why don't you like Heinz? Are they bad employers? Trash the environment? If it's the products, don't buy them. But if you happen to like a product, buy it. It encourages them to do the right things.

[OnTheBayou]

@Ecala: Unless the oil you got was really old, or you have an aversion to coconut flavor, I don't know why ANY coconut oil would taste bad. It's not like paint, here's one formula and there's another, which lasts longer? Squeeze coconut meat with the expeller press. Done.


More likely that some merchant had it sitting around way too long in the liquid phase.


I guess by now it sounds like I own stock in Spectrum/Heinz by now, but it's just my scientific skepticism rising to the top.

[Crystal W.]

....paint, that's it. It tasted like paint. LOL

[OnTheBayou]

Crystal, that's funny! I've noticed that canola - back when I used to dabble in it - often smelled or tasted like linseed (flax) oil. That is, of course, the oil used in oil based paints, the only kind we once had. It's not a pleasant taste to me.


Maybe someone pulled the "Canola" lever to fill the coconut jar!

[goodfriendsam]

OTB- my deal is pretty simple. all the same large food corporations got us in to this processed food mess are now acting like they're going to reverse all of our health problems with new supposedly healthy processed foods. i dont trust them, and i don't want to give them my money. i generally buy no processed foods whatsoever, but for the few that i do buy (oil, cheese, nut butter) i go with companies that are local or that are independent on the major food corporations.


heres info on who owns who - http://www.msu.edu/~howardp/organicindustry.html


here's a blurb i wrote on this just yesterday -

http://newfoodview.wordpress.com/200...t-who-profits/