Cold Pressed vs Refined: What Your Oil Isn't Telling You

Most supermarket oil is extracted with hexane, degummed, bleached and deodorised at temperatures above 200°C. What survives is pure fat — flavourless, colourless and stripped of nutrients.

The ghani difference

A wooden ghani turns at 15–20 RPM. The temperature never crosses 40°C. Vitamin E, phytosterols, natural antioxidants and the seed's real flavour stay in the bottle.

How to spot real cold pressed oil

• It has aroma — groundnut oil should smell of groundnuts.
• Light sediment at the bottom is normal and good.
• It solidifies or thickens in winter (especially coconut).
• The label says the pressing date, not just "best before".

Your grandmother never needed a nutrition label to know this. Neither do you.