Clearspring Organic Sunflower Oil 500ml

Our organic sunflower oil is unrefined, ensuring that it retains the great-tasting nutty flavour of the seeds from which it is cold pressed. Rich in unsaturated fats and vitamin E, it is perfect for sprucing up your salads and dressings with award-winning flavour and a nutritional power boost. - Unrefined and cold-pressed - Rich in Vitamin E - High in Polyunsaturated Fat How is it made? Our Organic Sunflower Oil is cold-pressed and unrefined. Cold pressing is when the raw ingredient is simply pressed without external sources of heat or chemicals applied to the pressing process. This allows the oil to retain more of its flavour and nutritional value creating a higher quality product. Once the oil is extracted from the raw ingredient, it needs to be further processed to remove any residual particles that might be left from pressing. Oils will fall into two categories at this stage: refined and unrefined. Like the pressing process, heat is one of the key elements which defines the method. Refined oils are subjected to heat pressure at this stage. Unrefined oil, such as our Organic Sunflower Oil, is processed much more gently using filters rather than heat after extraction. Like cold pressing, this helps the oil retain more of its flavour and nutritional properties, which would otherwise be degraded with the application of external heat.