TIME-HONOURED CRAFTSMANSHIP

Our Traditional Process

Slow, deliberate, and free from industrial shortcuts. Discover how time-honoured wooden chekku churns protect raw nutritional density and pure aroma.

STEP BY STEP HERITAGE

How Pure Food Should Be Made

We reject high-speed industrial expellers, hexane chemical extraction, and synthetic bleaching. Every Ruthved product respects the ancient wisdom of slow food.

01
Direct Farmer Partnerships

Thoughtful Native Sourcing

We source exclusively non-hybrid, sun-dried native seeds (groundnuts, sesame, mustard, safflower, coconut) from verified organic farmers across South India. Hand-sorted at peak maturity.

02
Vaagai Wood Mortar & Pestle

Bull-Driven Mara Chekku Churn

Seeds are crushed slowly inside a traditional wooden mortar carved from medicinal Vaagai (Albizia lebbeck) wood. Powered gently by healthy native oxen walking in peaceful circles at 2-3 RPM.

03
Kept Strictly Below 35°C

True Zero-Heat Cold Extraction

Unlike industrial expellers generating friction temperatures over 120°C, our slow wood churn preserves essential tocopherols, natural Vitamin E, and authentic nutty volatile aromas.

04
No Bleaching or Chemicals

Natural Sun Sedimentation

The freshly pressed oil is left to settle naturally under gentle sunlight in food-grade stainless vats for 48 hours. Microscopic seed fibers settle without chemical clays or synthetic filters.

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Traditional Curd-to-Ghee Method

Vedic Bilona Churning

For our A2 Desi Cow Ghee, whole raw milk is cultured into curd, churned bi-directionally with wooden bilona to yield makkhan (butter), then slow-cooked over sacred cow dung firewood.

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Zero Plastic Contamination

Pure Glass Bottle Bottling

Packaged directly in dark UV-protective amber and clear glass bottles or food-grade tins. Completely eliminating phthalates, BPA, and micro-plastics found in hot plastic bottling.

Industrial Refined Oil vs. Ruthved Cold Pressed Oil

FeatureCommercial Refined OilsRuthved Wood Pressed Oil
Extraction Heat✕ High temperature (180°C - 220°C)✓ Cold pressed strictly below 35°C
Solvent / Chemicals✕ Hexane solvent, phosphoric acid, sodium hydroxide✓ Zero chemicals, zero solvents
Bleaching & Deodorizing✕ Acid clays, artificial deodorizing at 250°C✓ Natural sun settling, 100% natural aroma
Antioxidants & Vitamins✕ Completely destroyed, synthetic TBHQ added back✓ Naturally intact Vitamin E, polyphenols & phytosterols
Packaging✕ Thin single-use PET plastic prone to leaching✓ Heavy UV glass bottles & food-grade tin canisters

Taste the True Difference of Wood Pressed Purity

Order our traditionally extracted cold-pressed oils and Vedic bilona ghee delivered directly to your doorstep.

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