Recently there has been a piece of news on how the safety of the vegetable oils produced with the solvent extraction method, and it is not new to people that the edible oils quality being doubted. The safety problem could be caused in the raw material choosing, in the oil extraction process and in the storage with improper conditions.
The 2 methods are physical method and chemical (solvent extraction) method. Theoretically the oil made by these 2 methods are both safe, but there has been argument on this topic for a long time. The news this time is about the extraction method: the solvent is being used in the extraction of oil, and the solvent couldn't be removed thoroughly from oil. Solvent residue is controlled under the safety line, and the physical way of pressing oil from the peanut is not totally safe either. It avoided the solvent pollution, but the toxic matter contained in the groundnut oil is able to be removed too.
While the nutrition value is preserved at the best conditions, so the vegetable oil produced from the regular factories should be considered safe, buy the pressed groundnut oil if you have fear for the solvent residue, or you can buy a small high quality peanut oil press from AGICO and a bag of groundnut and start to make your own best quality groundnut oil now!
