Pure tradition, pressed slowly.
Nothing here is fast, and that is the entire point.
A modern expeller runs at two hundred rotations a minute and touches ninety degrees. A solvent plant goes further — hexane, then bleaching earth, then deodorising at two hundred and forty degrees, which strips the colour, the smell, and most of what the seed spent a season making.
A lakdi ghani turns at fourteen. It crushes and kneads rather than shreds. The mortar stays cool enough to hold your hand against. It gives you a third less oil from the same seed, and everything the seed put into it.
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Seed selection
Sacks arrive from named villages in jute, never plastic. Every kilo is hand-sorted on a mud floor — shrivelled kernels, split seed and field stones are picked out by people, not by a machine that cannot tell the difference.
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Traditional wooden pressing
A neem-wood mortar and a sal-wood pestle, turning fourteen times a minute. The seed is crushed and kneaded rather than shredded. Put your hand on the block mid-press and it is merely warm.
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Natural filtration
The oil rests in steel for seventy-two hours and drops its own sediment under nothing but gravity. Then two passes through cotton muslin. No filter aid, no bleaching earth, no pressure, no heat.
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Quality testing
Free fatty acid, moisture and peroxide value are measured for every single batch before a bottle is filled. The numbers are printed on the label, not kept in a file somewhere.
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Premium packaging
Amber glass, filled the same week the seed met the press, stamped with its own press date. Glass because plastic gives oil something to take from it over six months on a shelf.
Pure oils. Natural goodness.
Extracted from the finest quality seeds and nuts, our cold-pressed oils retain nature's purity and nutrients. Cold pressed, retaining natural nutrients and aroma. 100% natural, no chemicals, no additives. Unrefined and pure, extracted naturally. Rich in good fats. Made with care, delivered with trust.
A groundnut field after the October lifting
Groundnut Oilशेंगदाणा तेल
Pressed to order
Bold, nutty and unmistakably alive. Pressed slowly from sun-dried groundnuts so the oil never meets heat it did not earn. Cold pressed, unrefined, with nothing added and nothing removed.
- Origin
- Smallholder farms, Gujarat
- Press temp
- 41°C
- Smoke point
- 205°C
८ presses · Black cotton soil, rain-fed
Why a refined oil can never smell like this one.
A refinery is not doing anything wrong. It is doing something different — extracting the maximum possible oil at the minimum possible cost, then removing everything that would make that oil taste of anything. Here is the process side by side.
Cold Pressed at 41°C
Maintains raw antioxidants, Vitamin E, and essential omega-3 fatty acids without heat degradation.
| Stage | Lakdi ghaniलकड़ी घाणी | Industrial refinery |
|---|---|---|
| Speed of the press | 14 rotations / minute | 200+ rotations / minute |
| Temperature reached | 38 – 41 °C | 180 – 240 °C |
| Solvent used | None (0.00%) | Hexane solvent |
| Bleaching & deodorising | Never | Standard practice |
| Oil taken from the seed | About 34% | Up to 48% |
| Colour and aroma | The seed's own | Removed deliberately |
| Shelf life stated | 6 months | 18 – 24 months |
Note the yield row. A refinery pulls roughly forty percent more oil out of the same sack of seed. That gap — the oil we deliberately leave behind rather than chase with a solvent — is most of the reason this bottle costs what it does.
Five promises we can be
held to.
Pure oils. Real nutrition.
Cold pressed, unrefined, natural. Nature's goodness, locked in every drop and every seed. Cold-pressed to preserve nature's nutrients, aroma and purity. Natural nutrition, stronger immunity, better heart health, aids digestion, healthy skin and hair, sustainable and ethical.
Every batch leaves with its own numbers.
Not a generic certificate framed on a wall. Each press is tested before it is bottled, and the values from your specific batch are printed directly on your label.
Quality checks
- Seed sorted by hand at intake
- Moisture measured before every charge
- Press temperature logged each batch
- Sensory check by the presser, twice daily
Purity testing
- Free fatty acid, per batch
- Peroxide value, per batch
- Moisture & insoluble impurities
- Annual adulteration panel, third party
Traditional methods
- Neem and sal wood mortars only
- 11 – 15 rotations per minute
- Gravity settling, cotton muslin filtration
- No refining stage of any kind
Your bottle will arrive stamped with its own unique batch lab code.
“I have been buying oil from a mill in Mylapore for twenty-two years. My daughter ordered this instead and I was ready to complain. The smell when I opened it was the same smell as the mill.”
From the wooden ghani, to your kitchen.
We press every day except Monday and ship the next morning. Order before Monday evening and your bottle is filled from a batch that does not exist yet.