Organic cold pressed groundnut oil from Purva Naturals is a perfect choice for health-conscious individuals looking to add a nutritious and flavourful peanut oil to their diet. Organically cultivated groundnuts are cold-pressed to extract an oil that retain all its natural goodness, nutrition and flavor.
What’s Unique about Purva Naturals Organic Cold Pressed Groundnut Oil
Purva Naturals Organic Cold Pressed Peanut Oil has five qualities that make it the best organic groundnut oil.
- Organic peanuts are used for oil milling. They are grown without use of any synthetic fertiliser or pesticides.
- The mechanically shelled nuts are naturally sun-dried (No chemicals used to speed-up drying)
- Cold-pressing is done in a specially designed stainless steel press ensuring that temperature is contained within 50oC
- Gravity filtering is done, where oil allowed to stand, allowing residues to settle slowly, without any chemical refining
- Oil extraction is done at minimal (3-4%) moisture consitions, thus ensuring a longer shelf life
What is Cold Pressed Oil
Cold Pressed vs Refined Oil – Why are Cold Pressed Oils Better
Oil cold pressing only extraxts about 65-70% of the high quality oil. But because it avoids high heat, cold-pressed oils retains more of its natural antioxidants, healthy fats, and other beneficial compounds.
By contrast, conventional industrial methods use chemical solvents and heat to maximise extraction & process the oil to make it neutral in colour and flavour. This results in significant nutrient loss and may also result in some residual solvent chemicals in the final product.
How Cold Pressed Oil is made by Purva Naturals
Step 2: These organic nuts or seeds are dried in the sun until they have only 5-7% moisture content. No chemicals are used in the drying process whatsoever.
Step 3: The nuts or seeds go into a stainless steel oil press that has been designed and built in-house to squeeze out the natural peanut oil. The machines have been specially designed to operate a low rotating speeds of below 50 rpm. This ensures that the temperature is kept down to less than about 50oC during this pressing. Overheating is prevented as excess heat can damage the healthy nutrients in the oil that are heat-sensitive.
Why Organic Cold Pressed Oil is Best
Because, organic cold pressed oil brands like Purva Naturals will:
- Use only organically cultivated nuts or oil seeds as raw material.
- Do not use any chemicals for drying the nuts or seeds. Instead they only use natural drying methods like solar driers.
- Do not add any checmials as preservatives or to increase the shelf life of these oils.