would like this article to have included the average polyphenol content in EVOO. author cites gundry’s but no comparison is offered. now i must google more. sigh
In my opinion, it erodes the credibility of this article when it rings of a hit piece. I watched one video by Dr. Gundry. I think he's interesting and entertaining, but it did sound a bit like an infomercial.
I am convinced that extra virgin olive oil is very healthy, so I hope I don't purchase fake ones. It's getting so hard to tell the difference.
I am not a fan of the taste of this olive oil at all! It tastes like burnt cod liver oil to me! I’m taking about a teaspoon a day because I paid for it and I want to see if it does something for my health! I probably won’t re-order it unless it works miracles! I’m pretty new to the plant paradox diet but so far so good! I hope it will give me good results, and I don’t need this olive oil to achieve them! Dr. Gundry actually gives you quite a number of oil choices! I did order some other products of his that I have not gotten yet!
As promised I came back to say the olive oil is disgusting. I agree with Dr. G’s education on inflammatory foods and diet info. He’s not the only doctor saying this but hood olives oil is overpriced and taste terrible
I love the taste of his olive oil. That said, I am not so sure it is worth the price if other extra-virgin olive oil has high polyphenols, too, at a much lower cost.
So I bought this oil. It was delivered today. I’m at work and haven’t tried it. Dr. Gundry is a Ivy League cardiac surgeon with several patents on medical devices. I work with the doctor who created the Window in the c-section drape. These are very smart doctors and also doctors who have opinions. Medical professionals have opinions. We see a lot. When doctors go against the grain they get push back by their peers. Doesn’t mean he’s wrong or that many of us don’t agree with many things he says. We understand that traditional medicine still has a ton of flaws. Especially when it comes to nutritional education and counseling. We still don’t differentiate good fat from bad fat (god fats like avocado olive oil etc). The author of this article is the founder and editor of olive oil times and surely has vested interests and the opinions in this article are clearly biased. I’ll update if the oil is gross but so far although I don’t agree with everything gundry says many nurses, techs, therapists and other healthcare professionals follow him. His education and accomplishments are public knowledge so why would he scam people with olive oil, diet advice and supplements when he was already a successful and famous surgeon? 🤦♀️
When I witnessed Gundry holding up a lab beaker containing some red liquid the whole deceptive/acted aspect of the pitch for his olive oil came crashing into my mind so abruptly I actually burst out laughing. After reading Curtis Cord's evaluation of this I got a few more laughs to boot. I am just glad we live close to a company that has its own olive groves and only sells oil harvested upon their land. I think I will stick with them.
I quickly looked on the internet and didn't see immediate negative articles on the oil and so I decided to try it. With the first time purchase discount it was a better price. It does have on the bottle and box it is cold pressed extra virgin organic olive oil and it has a green leaf and USDA Organic symbol on it. But I recently received it and started googling what does rancid olive oil smell and taste like. Before ordering I also tasted a common name brand one I had in the house. It didn't have much flavor nor much of a peppery burn. While waiting I decided to buy Costco's organic EVOO and it did have a green taste and peppery burn. I then received my Gundry order and blech! It smells and tastes maybe like a strong barn or hay taste and flavor. It does have the burn but it is not green tasting at all. It would destroy the flavor of anything you put it on. I have to force myself to drink it thinking it is medicinal but decided to poke around some on the internet. Is this what it should taste like? I think not. I will be returning my order for their declared money back guarantee. The bottle has a production date of May 2021 and expiration date of May 2023. It was ordered August 2022. The wineries in Italy all pretty much also make olive oil. None of the oil when I visited there tasted nasty like the Gundry one I just received. Just gross.
I bought his olive oil, it is the worst tasting oil I've ever tasted. It ruins the taste of whatever I use it for. At first I attributed it to the premise it is supposed to taste different but now I do suspect it's just rancid and I'm out $42.00. Awful tasting stuff.
All I know is my own medical history. The only dietary change I made was adding 2-3 tablespoons throughout the day 4 months ago. I’m still overweight and have not done anything else to improve my health, including leading a sedentary lifestyle at 68 (female). My total cholesterol has dropped from 208 to 187, my triglycerides have gone from 180 to 70, my non HDL has gone from 180 to 133, and my LDL from 122 to 117. Not perfect but fasting labs don’t lie and neither do I.
I am a normal customer that naively bought Gundry’s olive oil off of Amazon.
It arrived very rancid. I took it to my local Olive Oil Sommelier and she confirmed that it is indeed rancid and she has had numerous customers that have had the same problem.
When I tried to return it, Gundry MD on Amazon will not allow me to return it, or refund any money. I contacted Gundry’s organization directly and they refuse to stand behind it. I have wasted considerable time on this to no avail. So, not only do I have a very expensive product I cannot use, it is appearing that he is running a scam (in addition to everything in this article).
It's funny how no one actually checks the study that Dr. Gundry actually references. I looked it up and nothing is even mentioned about extra virgin oils. Reading it, the study discusses virgin olive oils and the "reliability" of lab analysis techniques to determine their polyphenol content. It's just convenient marketing to quote some old study from 2004, unrelated, to give more credibility to one's product. And a deceiving one for sure,
"Comparability and reliability of different techniques for the determination of phenolic compounds in virgin olive oil" by Karel Hrncirik Sonja Fritsche
In it, only 24 samples of virgin olive oil are used from different regions (and no Moroccan olives) It's actually available for free here:
So the claim 30 times is essentially bogus. And this is referring only to hydroxytyrosol, as advertised on the bottle, only one of the many polyphenols naturally present. Sure, Gundry's olive oil may have more polyphenols than refined olives oil, but that's like saying that whole wheat bread has more fibre than "regular" bread, regular being white bread. The refining process will remove the fibre.
There has never been a lab quality certificate as to its composition, it is just a claim. Meanwhile, there are actually some producers that have run a lab analysis and list the amount of polyphenols. I would probably go with those for quality assurance.
I bought the 3 bottle special, and opened one bottle, and used it 3 times. It smelled very bad, and taste very bad. The bottle date looked tampered with like it was rubbed off and another date was stamped on. Because of the rotten smell, and taste I don't trust this olive oil, and will try to get a refund.
The first time I heard Gundry speak I knew he was a fraud. I have degrees in Phys Ed and Biology and have a book published on natural healing. Gundry mentions in one of his earlier ads that he was seventy pounds overweight and couldn't shake it, even with being a strict vegetarian. working out at the gym and running five miles a day. Regardless of whatever else one's body is doing to process fats at a less than optimum level, that's completely impossible. I immediately knew that he was a liar. Be careful - Gundry's oil likely comes from snakes rather than olives.
Gundry is a quack when nutriional theories are involved. No hard scientific evidence around the lectin theory. In addition his super polyphenol oil and its cost is ridiculous. Look at the theories of T. Colin Cambell amd Esselstyn and Gundry carries no weight in the nutrional arena.
Hi, I buy olive oil since more than 20 years. I love Gundry MD olive oil, it tastes great to me, I put it on my salad, pasta, and I sometimes drink it like Dr Gundry suggests. What the below comments I read do not say is that this Gundry MD olive oil is SUPER RICH in polyphenols and especially hydroxytyrosol, the most potent of all the olive oil polyphenols and antioxidants. You can google “hydroxytyrosol”, you will find a lot of scientific studies on the health benefits of this polyphenol. So it is good for my health, good for my body!
Personally, I don’t care if this olive oil is theoretically rancid, it is not to me, I love the smell of honey on it.
Since I started taking this Gundry MD olive oil, my bad cholesterol rare dropped a lot and my sugar rate finally stabilized! Never got that with the others extra virgin olive oils I used to buy in the past.
The hydroxytyrosol content of Gundry MD olive oil is VERY HIGH. Good for my body, good for my health! I am Italian and I used to buy Italian, Spanish, Greek olive oil in the past, and they never got such a high richness in hydroxytyrosol!
Your article only mentions total polyphenols. How about hydroxytyrosol ?
This olive oil has got an extraordinary richness in hydroxytyrosol, which is the most powerful among all polyphenols, just google about it and you will read all the science associated to it! Gundry olive oil has more than 200 mg/Kg of total hydroxytyrosol.
Just for your information, an "regular" extra virgin olive oil that we found on supermarket shelves and coming from Spain, Italy or Greece has an average of 3 to 5 mg / Kg of hydroxytyrosol content.
Thus, the levels found in Gundry MD olive oil are by far the highest that we can find in the market. Gundry MD olive oil is even higher than 30 times richer in polyphenols hydroxytyrosol!
I also like the fact this olive oil is made in the desert of Morocco, thus it is free from pesticides residues, and free from heavy metals. In Europe, we find many olive groves nearby polluting industrial zones.
Would you still have the same POV if you learned the hydroxytyrosol found in Dr Gundry's oil was an additive? Google "Novel Food" hydroxytyrosol. I honestly have no information that this is the case, but it is worth pondering, considering the adulteration of Olive Oils proven to have taken place in bottles labeled "pure Extra Virgin Olive Oil from [Mediterranean Country]". I read a scholarly article (but plain language understandable by most laymen), which determined NF hydroxytyrosol was safe to add to foods (not just Olive Oil). The main problem i would have with the practice would be NOT DISCLOSING IT. (Again, no accusations here. Just can't understand why it would not be mentioned or be withheld.)
The comment you replied to is obviously a Gundry associate.
The problem with just coming out and saying it's enriched with an additive is that it's being pitched as a high-quality olive oil -- not motor oil with an additive, which is what the cited expert said it tastes like.
Instead of paying this lying witch doctor $200, you can support 4 families by paying the very fair price of $40 for excellent high quality and true EVOO. Buy from small, honest farms.
author cites gundry’s but no comparison is offered.
now i must google more. sigh
I am convinced that extra virgin olive oil is very healthy, so I hope I don't purchase fake ones. It's getting so hard to tell the difference.
I’m pretty new to the plant paradox diet but so far so good! I hope it will give me good results, and I don’t need this olive oil to achieve them! Dr. Gundry actually gives you quite a number of oil choices! I did order some other products of his that I have not gotten yet!
Dr. Gundry is a Ivy League cardiac surgeon with several patents on medical devices. I work with the doctor who created the Window in the c-section drape. These are very smart doctors and also doctors who have opinions. Medical professionals have opinions. We see a lot. When doctors go against the grain they get push back by their peers. Doesn’t mean he’s wrong or that many of us don’t agree with many things he says. We understand that traditional medicine still has a ton of flaws. Especially when it comes to nutritional education and counseling. We still don’t differentiate good fat from bad fat (god fats like avocado olive oil etc).
The author of this article is the founder and editor of olive oil times and surely has vested interests and the opinions in this article are clearly biased.
I’ll update if the oil is gross but so far although I don’t agree with everything gundry says many nurses, techs, therapists and other healthcare professionals follow him. His education and accomplishments are public knowledge so why would he scam people with olive oil, diet advice and supplements when he was already a successful and famous surgeon? 🤦♀️
It arrived very rancid. I took it to my local Olive Oil Sommelier and she confirmed that it is indeed rancid and she has had numerous customers that have had the same problem.
When I tried to return it, Gundry MD on Amazon will not allow me to return it, or refund any money. I contacted Gundry’s organization directly and they refuse to stand behind it. I have wasted considerable time on this to no avail. So, not only do I have a very expensive product I cannot use, it is appearing that he is running a scam (in addition to everything in this article).
"Comparability and reliability of different techniques for the determination of phenolic compounds in virgin olive oil" by Karel Hrncirik Sonja Fritsche
In it, only 24 samples of virgin olive oil are used from different regions (and no Moroccan olives)
It's actually available for free here:
https://zh.booksc.eu/book/1292780/209a2a
So the claim 30 times is essentially bogus. And this is referring only to hydroxytyrosol, as advertised on the bottle, only one of the many polyphenols naturally present. Sure, Gundry's olive oil may have more polyphenols than refined olives oil, but that's like saying that whole wheat bread has more fibre than "regular" bread, regular being white bread. The refining process will remove the fibre.
There has never been a lab quality certificate as to its composition, it is just a claim. Meanwhile, there are actually some producers that have run a lab analysis and list the amount of polyphenols. I would probably go with those for quality assurance.
Because of the rotten smell, and taste I don't trust this olive oil, and will try to get a refund.
Personally, I don’t care if this olive oil is theoretically rancid, it is not to me, I love the smell of honey on it.
Since I started taking this Gundry MD olive oil, my bad cholesterol rare dropped a lot and my sugar rate finally stabilized! Never got that with the others extra virgin olive oils I used to buy in the past.
The hydroxytyrosol content of Gundry MD olive oil is VERY HIGH. Good for my body, good for my health! I am Italian and I used to buy Italian, Spanish, Greek olive oil in the past, and they never got such a high richness in hydroxytyrosol!
Your article only mentions total polyphenols. How about hydroxytyrosol ?
This olive oil has got an extraordinary richness in hydroxytyrosol, which is the most powerful among all polyphenols, just google about it and you will read all the science associated to it! Gundry olive oil has more than 200 mg/Kg of total hydroxytyrosol.
Just for your information, an "regular" extra virgin olive oil that we found on supermarket shelves and coming from Spain, Italy or Greece has an average of 3 to 5 mg / Kg of hydroxytyrosol content.
Thus, the levels found in Gundry MD olive oil are by far the highest that we can find in the market. Gundry MD olive oil is even higher than 30 times richer in polyphenols hydroxytyrosol!
I also like the fact this olive oil is made in the desert of Morocco, thus it is free from pesticides residues, and free from heavy metals. In Europe, we find many olive groves nearby polluting industrial zones.
Thank you for your attention.
I read a scholarly article (but plain language understandable by most laymen), which determined NF hydroxytyrosol was safe to add to foods (not just Olive Oil). The main problem i would have with the practice would be NOT DISCLOSING IT.
(Again, no accusations here. Just can't understand why it would not be mentioned or be withheld.)
The problem with just coming out and saying it's enriched with an additive is that it's being pitched as a high-quality olive oil -- not motor oil with an additive, which is what the cited expert said it tastes like.
I tried it years ago and it really tastes horrid, but if you're curious you can find it on Amazon at a fraction of what he's selling his BS brand for.