Sam Fairs of Hillfarm Oils has been producing cold-pressed rapeseed oil for nearly four years on his family’s Suffolk farm where acres of rolling countryside are covered in brilliant yellow rape flower every summer.
“We realised the amazing qualities of rapeseed oil and started to cold press it, filter and then bottle our own oil. Rapeseed oil has a beautiful light texture, wonderful yellow colour and a nutty flavour – which won us a Gold at the 2005 Great Taste Awards!!<br />The oil is incredibly versatile, as it has a higher burn point than olive oil, so you can use it for roasting and frying, while it still has all the oil’s healthy characteristics. It has the lowest saturated fat content of any oil available, and an incredible 11 times the Omega 3 of olive oil – great for blood circulation and young brains.<br />“We use it all the time,” says Sam’s wife Clare, who is also part of the team. “Lottie, 6, and Harry, 2, have grown up with me cooking with it. You can use it for everything, from roasting to Yorkshire puddings, frying an egg, baking bread and flapjacks, to mixing in a salad dressing or a marinade – even on its own!”<br />Hillfarm Oil also has a higher Vitamin E content, the natural antioxidant, which also helps look after the Omega 3 during cooking – and ensures a longer shelf life.<br />Hillfarm Oil is fully traceable, GM free, low on food miles – it’s available in all Waitrose stores, some Asda, 90 branches of Tesco’s, Sainsbury’s, also in local delis and farm shops across Britain. And by mail order too: <a href="http://www.hillfarmoils.com/">www.hillfarmoils.com</a><br />Hillfarm Oil - as seen on Ready Steady Cook, and loved by celebrity chef Rachel Green<br />The Fairs family's 35 years experiance in sustainable agriculture means that only the finest rapeseed is used in producing Hillfarm Oils Cold pressed Extra Virgin Rapeseed Oil.<br />Hillfairs is a family run business and they farm outside Halesworth in the surrounding Suffolk countryside with rapeseed as one of the main crops grown. Believing that the true value of the crop was not being achieved and also keen to diversify Hillfairs became interested in the idea of cold pressing the rapeseed into a premium cooking oil.<br />So it is from this intitial idea that Hillfarm Oils was created . They are the original producers of Cold Pressed Extra Virgin Culinary Rapeseed Oil here in Great Britain. <br />Health Qualities<br />Cold Pressed rapeseed oil has just 6% saturated fat content. In contrast most olive oils have 14% and sunflower oil has 10%. <br />In terms of unsaturated fats rapeseed oil has 59% mono-unsaturated fat and 30% poly unsaturated fat. <br />Nutritionalists suggest 2:1 Omega 6 to Omega 3 ratio in the diet. Extra Virgin rapeseed oil has this ratio. <br />Mono-unsaturated fats, Omega 3, 6, 9 and Vitamin E antioxidants are all known to help lower cholesterol. Extra Virgin rapeseed oil has all of the above. <br />Cold pressed Extra Virgin rapeseed oil is locally grown, giving full traceable, sustainable, non GM culinary oil. <br />All of the above give you possibly the healthiest and most versatile cooking oil you can buy. And one you can trust. <br />More information at:- <a href="http://www.hillfarmoils.com/">http://www.hillfarmoils.com</a>
