Pressed Cold. Served Hot: Cooking Oil Innovation Preserves Quality of Cold-Pressed Oils When Heated

VIENNA - June 11, 2025 - PRLog -- For the first time, cold-pressed edible oils can be heated to high temperatures and reused several times without any loss of quality. This makes them a high-quality and cost-effective alternative to refined cooking oils used in the catering industry. This breakthrough was achieved by the team at Lipid Legends GmbH, a spin-off from the University of Vienna specializing in edible oil optimization. With the resulting improvement of both sunflower and rapeseed oils, the company now presents the latest products from its intensive research and development programme. Both oils set new standards for health, longevity, and indulgence. This makes them particularly interesting for the catering industry, where large quantities of cooking oil are often used (e.g. for frying). The new oils follow on from the company's optimized flaxseed oil, which has already been successfully launched. The new range of high quality cooking oils offers real added value not only to consumers but also to the catering industry.

In catering establishments, oils generally need to be replaced when the level of by-products ("polar content") reaches 24– 27%. These are produced by various chemical processes, particularly during heating, and are generally considered to be harmful to health. Special sensors – often built into deep fryers – measure these levels and inform the user when the oil has become unusable. Marc Pignitter, Professor of Analytical Food Chemistry at the University of Vienna, who played a key role in the development of the new oils, comments: We have succeeded in developing cold-pressed oils that not only taste better and are healthier, but also last longer – even in extreme heat. Our oil remains stable where refined oils had to be replaced long ago. This is a revolution in cooking – and in the edible oil industry as a whole."

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