Avocado Oil Adulteration

The same adulteration pattern found in edible avocado oil also appears in cosmetics, where avocado oil is listed near the bottom in trace amounts while soy, palm, and mineral oil are the primary ingredients. 82% of avocado oil products tested were not what they claimed to be. Cheaper oils such as soy and canola are used to adulterate avocado oil products while they are sold at avocado-oil prices. Adulteration is undetectable to consumers because deodorization removes any flavor or smell markers that would reveal the substitution. Some bottles labeled pure avocado oil contained only soybean oil and canola oil with no avocado oil at all.