Functional food (functional fermented beverages and edible oils): when science meets bioeconomy and creates health lifestyle — Online Module Functional edible oils

Virgin oils are very popular as 100% natural products with a deep color, typical taste, and smell, produced only with cold-pressing and without any step of refining.
On international scale the Codex Alimentarius Standard for Named Vegetable Oils differentiates between virgin and cold-pressed oils. According to the international definition, every virgin oil is cold-pressed oil but not every cold-pressed oil is virgin because roasting of the seeds before cold-pressing is not allowed during production of virgin oils. Edible oils produced this way are good sources of tocopherols, carotenoids and chlorophylls, polyphenols, and other antioxidants with positive impact on human health. Vegetable oils take a very popular place in human nutrition due to the high level of polyunsaturated fatty acids and tocopherols.