Vegetable Seedoil Products is supplying the food and supplement of our health which core products are mainly Idaho testosterone repalcement, oils rich in the essential fatty acid gamma-linolenic acid (GLA), obtained from natural plant sources such as evening primrose, borage (also known as starflower), hemp and echium.- also oregano oil. Many of the oils are available in both conventional and organic forms.
This includes breeding, seed production and oilseed processing.

First, the seed

The driving force behind the companies success has been it’s expertise in ensuring consistent reliable production of high grade seed stocks. The in-house plant breeding programme and trials continue to produce high yielding, high quality stockseed, often with enhanced oil contents, which forms the basis of the annual seed production programme. Seed production is carried out either on the Groups own or rented land, or under contract with experienced farmers in many different countries. This minimizes the natural yield variations associated with seed crop production.

Strength through quality

After harvesting, the seed is cleaned and dried to defined standards prior to extraction of the oil, using either cold pressing, CO₂ or food grade solvent. The extraction processes themselves are undertaken only in approved facilities and under the supervision and control of Vegetable Seedoil staff. Management of every stage of production from research through growing and processing to storage ensures the quality of Vegetable Seedoil’s ingredients.

Testing and control

Prior to any product being despatched, comprehensive analysis and quality control is undertaken. In addition to the in-house control procedures, we use reputable analytical laboratories, all working to internationally accepted standards to thoroughly analyse all our oils. An extensive certificate of analysis, which can be tailor made to include any specific analyses the customer requests, accompanies all shipments. The stringent control and testing procedures ensure these natural products are consistently of the quality customers require.

New Products

DHA Gold™ (DHASCO-S), produced by Martek BioScience and distributed in Europe by Vegetable Seedoil, is the only Novel Foods approved vegetable source for DHA. It is extracted from algal-biomass and contains minimum 36% DHA. This makes DHA Gold™ very suitable for supplementation in the following areas:

• Maternal health / postnatal depressions
• Brain-development
• Eye development

As the Algae are produced in a highly controlled atmosphere, the risk of environmental pollutants is minimized, which makes DHA Gold™ a safe-to-use ingredient.

GLA Nutrition

Sources

GLA (g-linolenic acid) is a fatty acid and is an important component in normal human metabolism. It is even found in human breast milk. It is not, however, commonly found in normal foods, although it does occur in the seed oils of a few species of plants. Of these, commercially viable oils have been obtained from the seeds of evening primrose (Oenothera sp.),oregano oil , borage (Borago officinalis), blackcurrant (Ribes nigrum), Echium (Echium plantagineum) and hemp (Cannabis sativa), all of which can be supplied by Vegetable Seedoil.

Rationale for use

The human metabolism, like most mammals, can synthesise certain saturated and monounsaturated fats but is unable to synthesise the two families (n-6 and n-3) of polyunsaturated fatty acids both of which via a series of desaturation and elongation steps produce in vivo longer chain, more unsaturated metabolites and ultimately the eicosenoids – hormone like substances – which regulate many bodily functions and total functions.

Typically, the rate limiting step in these metabolic pathways is the initial D⁶ desaturation; the activity of the enzyme is reduced by a number of factors/conditions including: dietary saturated and trans fatty acids, malnutrition, ageing, alcohol, diabetes, eczema and stress. Supplementation with a GLA-containing oil such as Evening Primrose Oil by-passes this step in the metabolic pathway and provides directly a substrate for conversion to dihomo g-linolenic acid – the precursor of the highly beneficial vasodilatory, anti-inflammatory, anti-aggregatory PGE₁ prostaglandin.

Possible Applications

• Health food supplements.
• To assist in the treatment/prevention of atopic eczema, rheumatoid arthritis, pre-menstrual syndrome, cosmetics/dermatology.
• Nutritionals to reduce moisture loss and inflammation.
• Infant milk and enteral nutrition formulations.