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Olive oil: what's actually in it?

The short answer is: it depends entirely on which of the three words is on the front — extra virgin, pure / light, or pomace. Extra virgin, in every product panelled here, is a single ingredient. Pure and light are blends of refined oil with extra virgin oil. Pomace is oil extracted from the leftover olive pulp, refined, then blended with extra virgin oil. The bottle may say "100% olive oil" in all three cases and still be three different products — because "100% olive" describes the source fruit, not the grade.

This page does not rank oils, give a health score, or pick a "best" oil. It shows the ingredient list as printed, plus origin and extraction claims exactly as the brand/retailer states them, and flags where a claim is a description rather than an ingredient section.

The headline, in 30 seconds

• Extra virgin = one ingredient, everywhere panelled. Cobram Estate, Pons Traditional, Bertolli, Papa's Grove (Little Farms) and others all list 100% extra virgin olive oil — the difference is origin, olive variety and extraction claim, not a second ingredient.
• "Pure", "light" and "extra light" are blends, not grades of virgin oil. Naturel Pure, Naturel Extra Light, FairPrice Extra Light and Borges Classic all list refined olive oil plus extra virgin (or virgin) olive oil. "Light" here means light flavour/colour, not light in calories — the page quotes the blend, not the marketing.
• Pomace is the third, separate category. FairPrice Pomace lists refined pomace oil and extra virgin olive oil; Pons Orujo describes itself as refined olive pomace oil plus extra virgin olive oil, made from 100% olives. Pomace oil comes from the pulp left after the first pressing, extracted with solvents and then refined — that extraction history is why it sits apart from virgin oils.
• Flavoured oils are a fourth case. Mantova's black truffle spray is extra virgin oil plus 2% black truffle extract natural flavour — the only panelled product here with a flavour ingredient. Infused oils at Little Farms (chilli, lemon, thyme, porcini) are seen-but-not-verified because no ingredient percentages were retrieved.
• Origin is often a blend too. Several extra virgin oils state an EU or multi-country origin, or name no single country on the listing checked. Where the listing gives no origin, the page says so instead of assigning one.

At a glance

Prices are deliberately not shown here: they change weekly and would go stale. This site compares ingredients only. "EVOO" below is shorthand for extra virgin olive oil.

Extra virgin — one ingredient

Pure / light — refined + virgin blends

Pomace — a separate category

Flavoured / spray oils

Little Farms check (added channel)

Little Farms was checked for olive oil. Beyond the two panelled oils above (Papa's Grove Balance, Entre Caminos Organic), its dressings/oils/vinegars range (58 products) includes Olio Guglielmi Intenso / Fruttato / Leggero / Smoked, Vianoleo Tuscan Estate, iO Black EVOO, LIA Greek Premium EVOO, and Canigooil flavoured oils (thyme, lemon, porcini, chilli-garlic-peppers), plus olive-oil-packed fish (tuna/sardines/anchovies — out of scope, they are fish products, not bottled oil). None of those additional oils had a verbatim ingredient section retrieved in this pass, so they are seen-but-not-verified below. Little Farms stocks no pomace oil in the listings found — its range is extra-virgin-led, which is itself a useful inventory finding.

Seen but not verified — do not panel until checked

• FairPrice Olive Oil — Extra Virgin; Naturel Olive Oil — Extra Virgin; Naturel Organic Extra Virgin — listed at FairPrice; ingredient sections not retrieved in this pass. Do not assume "100% EVOO" from the name alone without the section.
• Borges Extra Light; Bertolli Extra Light / Classico; LaDiva Extra Virgin / Pomace; Alce Nero Organic Extra Virgin; Basso Pomace (tin); RedMan Pomace — listed at FairPrice; no ingredient sections retrieved.
• Pons single-variety EVOOs (Abequina, Hojiblanca, Picual), Pons Classic — listed at FairPrice; ingredient sections not separately retrieved from the Traditional panel.
• Little Farms additional oils — Olio Guglielmi Intenso/Fruttato/Leggero/Smoked, Vianoleo Tuscan Estate, iO Black, LIA Greek Premium, Papa's Grove Delicate/Robust/Punchy, Canigooil flavoured oils: listed at littlefarms.com, no verbatim ingredient sections retrieved.
• Colavita, Kirkland Signature Organic, and other marketplace/import EVOOs (Lazada/Shopee/RedMart) — named in Singapore guides and marketplace listings; no SG ingredient sections verified in this pass.
• Giant, Sheng Siong, Cold Storage, Donki, Mustafa, Meidi-Ya, Le Petit Depot house/import ranges — checked at category level only in this pass; no additional verbatim lists verified. Donki/Meidi-Ya Japanese and Italian import oils in particular need an in-store check.
• Re-audit 5 Nov 2026 — new FairPrice brands (no ingredient section retrieved): Abril — Dioses De Gran Selection, Diose De Fresh Breeze Hojiblanca, Dioses De Sweet Calm Arbequina, Dioses De Pure Passion Picual, Dioses De Mother Earth Organic, Dioses De Wise Harmony Gran Selection, Pure (Pure / Mild), Extra Virgin Air Fry Spray and Extra Virgin Spray; all listed at FairPrice, Spain origin on the listings checked, no INGREDIENTS section on the FairPrice pages opened (Gran Selection page shows key information only).
• Re-audit 5 Nov 2026 — other new FairPrice listings (no ingredient section retrieved): Farmers Union Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil — Cold Pressed; Simply Natural Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil (Spain, Valencia, cold-pressed); Colavita Olive Oil — Classic; Colavita Extra Virgin Olive Oil — Organic Mediterranean (FairPrice page shows key information only, no ingredient section); Borges Olive Oil — Extra Light; Naturel Organic Olive Oil — Extra Virgin; Naturel Spray Oil — Extra Virgin.
• Re-audit 5 Nov 2026 — Little Farms additional oils (no verbatim ingredient section retrieved): iO Youth Olive Oil — EVOO+, Limonene and Matcha (30ml; Little Farms describes them as EVOO from Vianoleo groves, enriched with a plant product / D-limonene / matcha — no headed ingredient list); Vianoleo Extra Virgin Olive Oil — Black / White (500ml).
• Re-audit 5 Nov 2026 — Naturel Extra Virgin note: a Singapore Shopee listing describes it as "infused with a touch of fig leaves for a sweet, smooth taste with gentle hints of spiciness" — the description was truncated before any ingredient line, so no verbatim list was retrieved and it stays unverified. Do not panel it as plain 100% EVOO on the name alone.
• Olive-oil spreads / blended spreads — deliberately excluded: a spread whose list starts with rapeseed/sunflower/palm oils is not olive oil, even if olive oil appears in the list.

Nutrition — what the numbers say

All figures below are as sold, per 100 ml unless the Basis column says otherwise. Salt = sodium × 2.5, so where a source prints salt, the sodium figure is salt ÷ 2.5 and is shown with the printed salt figure; where a source prints sodium, the salt equivalent is sodium × 2.5 in brackets. No Nutri-Grade is assigned on this page, and no health score is given. Most panelled oils have no nutrition panel retrieved in this pass — they are listed under "seen but not verified (nutrition)" below, not estimated from another oil.

Conflicts flagged, not silently resolved: a second Open Food Facts Bertolli extra virgin listing gives 3,435 kJ (821 kcal), fat 91 g and saturated fat 13 g per 100 g/ml — saturated fat 13 g vs 18 g on the 1 L listing above. A US Cobram Estate California listing gives saturated fat 16.7 g per 100 g/ml, vs 13.9 g for the Australian Classic above; the two are different market/variant listings, not the same bottle. The Singapore pack settles both.

What the numbers say, as numbers only: the oils with a retrieved panel show sugars 0 g and sodium 0 mg (Cobram Estate). Saturated fat on the retrieved panels is 13.9 g per 100 ml (Cobram Estate Classic) and 13 g or 18 g per 100 g/ml (Bertolli, conflicting listings above). No other sugar or sodium figure is available from a retrieved panel on this page.

Seen but not verified (nutrition) — do not panel until checked: Pons Traditional EVOO; Borges Extra Virgin; Papa's Grove Balance Greek EVOO; Entre Caminos Organic EVOO; Olio Guglielmi EVOO range (Intenso/Fruttato/Leggero/Organic/Coratina/Ogliarola — a Little Farms listing for LIA, not Guglielmi, gave a partial per-100ml table, energy 824 kJ, fat 91.6g, protein 0.0g, which looks inconsistent with a per-100ml oil panel and was not used); Naturel Extra Light; FairPrice Extra Light; FairPrice Rich & Fruity; Borges Classic (Pure); FairPrice Pomace; Pons Orujo Pomace; Mantova Black Truffle Spray; Mantova Organic Spray. No nutrition figures were retrieved for these in this pass, and none has been borrowed from a similar oil.

How to read an olive oil label — the jargon, in plain English

Extra virgin

Oil obtained from olives by mechanical means only (pressing/centrifugation), without chemical refining, meeting acidity and quality standards. On this page it always corresponds to a single-ingredient list.

Virgin

Like extra virgin but to a lower quality/acidity standard. When a blend lists "virgin" rather than "extra virgin" in second position, that is a real difference in the blend component — check which word the pack uses.

Refined olive oil

Oil that has been chemically/physically refined to remove flavour, colour and defects. It is still olive oil, but it is not virgin oil. Blends are mostly refined oil with a little virgin/extra virgin added back for flavour.

Pure / light / extra light / classic

Marketing names for refined + virgin blends. "Light" means light flavour and colour, not fewer calories — the fat content per 100ml is essentially the same as extra virgin.

Pomace / orujo

Oil from the solid pulp left after virgin extraction, extracted with solvents and refined, then blended with virgin oil. "Orujo" is Spanish for pomace. Pomace oil is not virgin oil, even when the bottle says "100% olives".

First cold pressed / cold-extracted

Claims about extraction temperature/process (oil extracted without heating above a threshold, on first pressing). These are process claims on the label, not ingredients — this page quotes them as the brand states them and does not verify the temperature.

Single variety vs blend of varieties

Koroneiki, Manaki, Hojiblanca, Arbequina, Picual and Abequina are olive varieties. A single-variety oil names one; most supermarket oils blend varieties and/or countries. Variety is not an ingredient — the ingredient is still olive oil.

100% olive oil

Means the bottle contains only oil from olives (no other vegetable oil). It does not, by itself, tell you whether the oil is extra virgin, refined, or pomace — the grade word and the ingredient list do.

What this page is not

• Not a health score, not a ranking, and not a price comparison. Smoke-point and nutrition claims are not scored here.
• Not complete. FairPrice/Naturel extra virgin ingredient sections, the Little Farms premium range, and Giant/Sheng Siong/Donki import oils are deliberately left unpanelled for the verification reasons given.

Sources and method

Checked 5–6 November 2026, re-audited 5 November 2026 from FairPrice olive-oil category/brand pages (Abril, Colavita, Farmers Union, Simply Natural, Borges Extra Light, Naturel Organic/Spray), Singapore Shopee seller listings (Borges EVOO, Naturel EVOO description), Little Farms dressings/oils range (Guglielmi, iO Youth, Vianoleo Black/White, LIA) and non-SG retailer lists for Guglielmi/Borges. Re-audit added 1 panel (Olio Guglielmi range) and ~15 new seen-but-not-verified entries; panelled total is now 16 panels covering 22 products. Residual gap: no FairPrice ingredient section was retrievable for FairPrice/Naturel/Borges EVOO, Abril, Colavita, Farmers Union or Simply Natural — FairPrice product pages for several of these show key information only, with no INGREDIENTS section in the fetched text — and Giant/Sheng Siong/Cold Storage/Donki/Mustafa/Meidi-Ya/Le Petit Depot import oils still need an in-store check. Not 100% complete. Original sources: NTUC FairPrice product pages (ingredient sections) for FairPrice Pomace/Extra Light/Rich & Fruity, Naturel Pure/Extra Light, Cobram Classic/Light, Pons Traditional/Orujo, Mantova sprays; Open Food Facts for Bertolli EVOO; Singapore-facing GroceryHunt + non-SG retailer listings for Borges (flagged); Little Farms product pages for Papa's Grove Balance and Entre Caminos (and range inventory). Nutrition addition, 5–6 November 2026: figures standardised to per 100 ml where the source gives per-100 figures; per-serving-only figures are labelled as such and not converted; sugars shown are total sugars as printed, and salt = sodium × 2.5. Full per-fact source list, including nutrition sources, is in the accompanying research notes.