Sesame Seed Oil | Sesame Oil

Sesame seed oil has been used for centuries for cooking, beauty/body care and as a healing oil. Sesame seeds were one of the first crops processed for oil as well as one of the first condiments.

Sesame Seed Oil Facts

• Only 2 (two) tablespoons of sesame seed oil a day provides the recommended daily amount of Vitamin E (10mg per 10g of oil). Vitamin E is also used for treatment of hemorrhoids.
• Is rich in oleic acid which had been found to significantly reduce cholesterol.
• Is low in saturated fats - the kind of fat that's bad for our bodies.
• Contains sesamol and sesamin. 2 very powerful antioxidants.
• Is lowering blood pressure. A study on 195 men and 133 women with high blood pressure showed, that six days after switching to sesame oil as the only cooking oil they used, the patients' average blood pressure dropped into the normal range. (A report to the American Heart Association's annual meeting of the Inter-American Society of Hypertension by Devarajan Sankar, DO, PhD, of Annamalai University, Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India). Is rich in vitamins: vitamin B1, A and E
• Is antibacterial, antiviral and natural anti-inflammatory agent and antioxidant.
• It contains linoleic acid and alpha linoleic acid as well as lecithin, and is beneficial to the brain and nervous system.
• Sesamin has also been found to protect the liver from oxidative damage.