KTC Premium Quality Edible Mustard Oil Blend, 1 Litre

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If you decide to use mustard oil on your skin or scalp, be sure to perform a patch test first and use only a small amount to prevent irritation.

That said, it is an important flavour for many Indian dishes so this new edible mustard oil is a welcome addition to my kitchen cupboard. Our products are also shipped from facilities where other products that may cause allergies are handled. There are many different types of pickles and dressings to choose from, and it might be fun to switch up the oils you'd normally use the next time you're experimenting in the kitchen.

The obvious question that comes to mind, and one that people often ask me, is this: "Well, if it’s okay for folks in India, why can’t we cook and consume it here? The oil that comes from the pressed seeds of mustard or mustard oil has been a key ingredient in North and Eastern Indian cooking for centuries and is used as the base oil in many fish and vegetable dishes. As well as adding it to homemade face masks and hair treatments, it’s sometimes mixed with wax and applied to the feet to help heal cracked heels.

I drizzle it over salads, as in the cucumber salad recipe I developed for this article, and I use it as a finishing oil for many dishes, whether their focus is vegetables, fish, poultry, or steak—essentially wherever I think its wasabi-like edge will shine.That's no small feat given that rapeseed is the third largest crop in the world used to make oil, per the article. Catastrophic rains in British Columbia towards the end of 2021 (via NPR) coupled with excessive heat across southern Canada, says AGCanda dealt the country's mustard seed supply chain a tremendous blow. One systematic review found that people with diets rich in monounsaturated fatty acids had lower blood pressure and less body fat than others who consumed fewer of these acids. For this reason, governments placed a worldwide ban on oils with high Erucic acid levels which included mustard oil.

We link primary sources — including studies, scientific references, and statistics — within each article and also list them in the resources section at the bottom of our articles.The European Food Safety Authority clarifies that, for adults, average consumption levels are nothing to be concerned about.