Liquid gold: Eight low-cost olive oils put to the taste test

Cheap doesn’t always have to mean nasty and with olive oil in just about everyone’s cupboards these days it’s worth seeing what the cheapest is like.

The lowest priced are sold in plastic bottles, but we really must vote with our feet and only buy glass, recyclable bottles or cans. Olive oil has an acidic content, so it can absorb unhealthy PVCs from plastic.