So… Gabe and i were both procrastinating last night.. And some how we ended up shining my UV laser on some olive oil.. We were kinda surprised to see that the normally blue violet beam made a bright red florescent spot in the oil. We tried other oils: canola, grapeseed, etc.. But they all fluoresced a dull green.. Or not at all. So.. Looks like we figured out a way to detect fake olive oil…

Then Gabe told me that he had heard that all the great healthy benefits of using olive oil go out the window when you heat the oil even a little.. Evidently heat breaks some of the good polyunsaturated double bonds in the fats and causes them to saturate with hydrogen bonds…. (Hence saturated fats) That lead father and son to hypothesize that such a restructuring might change the florescence of said oil…

So.. We got out a frying pan and heated a small amount of Diane’s really good virgin olive oil to the point it smoked then let it cool then poured it into a glass We then poured an equal amount of uncooked olive oil into an identical glass. We then shined the UV laser through both..

Pasta fazoul ! It worked… The uncooked oil had the same bright red florescence..

The cooked stuff had a completely different crazy pink florescence

So .. Weve invented a way to detect heat induced saturation of olive oil. I searched the internet and didn’t see anyone else who had reported It.. how cool is that ?

Anything to put off homework… ,

Nite all, nite sam

-me

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