Black olives or maybe olives undergoing … “Tanning”?

Sometimes nothing satisfies your wish for salt as many olives reports the Daily Mail.

But the next time you look for a box in the stores, you might want look a little more carefully the list of ingredients.

OR Sofia Smith GielerBritish influencer in Tiktok and writer, warns that black olives are not … exactly what they look.

In her viral video, she explains that black olives are filled with additives to remove their bitterness and to change their color.

This means that olives available in commerce as black may Not at all black by their nature.

‘You probably buy fake blacks Olives from the supermarket »he said in the video, which has more than 119,000 views and 6,000 “I like”.

Usually, in a cheap box of black supermarkets, all individual olives “have a very similar taste and appearance,” he explains. But this is because ‘All have got exactly the same black color’ with “A particular ingredient”.

Professor Gooder Kunle, food scientist at the University of Rinding said that sodium hydroxide “It is often used in food treatment.”

“It is used to process many cereals such as corn, for food peeling, but you don’t find it so often on the label,” told the Daily Mail.

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Lactic acid It is also added to the olives in brine as it reduces their pH, acting as a natural conservative against the development of unwanted pathogens.

But there is another add -on you will usually find in the list of components of black olives – The sweet iron.

Glyconic iron, an iron compound used in the olive industry, gives a uniform black color to small round fruits.

This means that black olives are often in fact green To which the black compound has been added to become darker, Tiktoker explains.

“His job is to be associated with compounds in the olives to oxidize them and turn them into this uniform black”, Explained by Smith Galer, who is also a former partner at the Brown University Information Futures Lab.

“Just because they are called black olives, it doesn’t mean they were naturally black – they were not, they were green.”

Glyconian iron (E579) has been approved as a food additive by the United Kingdom Food Service and the US Food and Drug Administration. It is also used as a supplement to combat iron deficiency, but side effects may include nausea, vomiting and stomach pain.

“Normal” black olives without the add -on are often a little softer than green simply because they were allowed to mature before they are collected and processed.

Although the influencer shows a box of black olives from the Waitrose supermarket chain, and other British chains sell black olives containing the add -on.

The British newspaper found that Asda, Sainsbury’s and Tesco sell their own brand of black olives containing the “stabilizer” sweet iron.

However, they do not all contain The black olives of these supermarkets of sweet iron.

Many black olives of good quality have been allowed to mature properly before collecting, packaging and shipping.

Of course, black olives (those left to mature) tend to be sweeter and slightly softerwith less bitterness than green olives.

For example, at the end of the video clip, Smith Goler eats Beldi olives from Morocco, a naturally wrinkled variety served in salt.

“You can, if you want, buy real black olives in the supermarket”he adds. ‘These are the true“

The Daily Mail contacted representatives of Waitrose, Asda, Sainsbury’s and Tesco for comments.

A spokesman for John Lewis, a mother’s parent chain, said: “The use of this ingredient is common throughout the industry and maintains the quality and taste of black olives.”

“We also give our customers choices and also sell a wide variety of olives that do not use this sweet iron.”

Andrew Opie, Food and Sustainability Manager at the British Retail Consortium (British Chamber of Commerce), said:

“Glyconian iron is approved by the Food Standard Service and is used throughout the industry in olive processing for better quality and taste.”