When reading the ingredients on food, have you noted how vegetable oils are listed? Sometimes oil is listed as “expeller pressed” or “cold-pressed”.
Expeller pressed oil means that the oil is extracted from the seed by a press as described in this fact sheet. Cold pressed adds an ad-ditional requirement that the oil is extracted at a temperature of less than 49 C (120 F).
Many people be-lieve that the oil produced at a lower temperature have better health char-acteristics. Additionally, cold pressed oils have a lower phosphorous level which is required if using the oil as straight vegetable oil (SVO) fuel in an internal combustion engine.
