Edible oils are one of the most common cooking elements in most cuisines worldwide. The cooking oil is used for deep drying and sauteing, or sometimes just added as toppings.

Most of the oil used in almost every household is refined oil manufactured at a very high temperature of 200° Celsius with added chemical solvents to increase the yield. This oil refinement process at high temperatures destroys most of the essential nutrients from the seeds and leaves the oil with heavy fats.

The refined oil manufacturing process yields to high content of trans-fact which is the main problem in developing cholesterol issues in recent times. Also, to make the shelf life longer and to make the oil look crystal clear additional chemicals are added – and no need to say these are not at all healthy for us.

Cold Pressed Oil Extraction Process

Extracting the oil from oil seeds like sesame can be traced back to the Harrapan era in ancient India. Our ancestors had the knowledge to extract oil by pressing the oil seeds with the help of the Pestle and Mortar setup up and we know them by the name ‘Ghani‘ or ‘Kolhu‘ today.

Cold pressed oils can be extracted from multiple vegetable seeds like groundnuts, sesame, sunflower, safflower, almonds and coconuts too. All of these oils have there own health benefits per ayurveda.

Cold Pressed Oil vs Refined Oil

This natural way of pressing oil has low-temperature needs which helps almost 100% nutritional values and essential elements from the plant seeds.