While the organic certification of olive oil can guarantee that certain pesticides and contaminants were not used, it still does not exclude the use of all contaminants. It also does not translate into quality. An organic Moroccan olive oil – like any other organic olive oil – can in fact be of low quality.
What makes a high-grade and tasty Moroccan olive oil is inherently linked to how the olive trees were cultivated, the quality of water used, as well as if contaminants such as mineral oils, pesticides, and plasticizers were avoided.
Avoiding preservatives in olive oil is indicative of the quality of your argan oil, this being said, this also means that your olive oil may decline quicker in quality over time compared to olive oil which making-process included the use of preservatives. That’s why it’s important to check the harvested date (more on that later).