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GOOD Hemp Seed Oil

By Stefanie Mar 11, 2010
Posted in Entertainment, Food, Green Products, Recipes

goodhempseedoil.jpgGOOD OIL is a hemp seed oil that is unique among other hemp oils. Delicious and versatile, this shelf stable culinary oil is ideal for dipping, sautéing, and dressings. It’s used exactly like olive oil, but it’s better for you! Hemp seed oil is a “super food” with the highest content of Omega 3 and 6 Essential Fatty Acids (EFAs) of all oils. Other hemp oils have long been considered dietary supplements, but GOOD Hemp Seed Oil has found its rightful place in the kitchen as the healthier choice culinary oil.

For consumers seeking healthier culinary oil, GOOD OIL has 25 times the Omega 3 and 28% less saturated fat than olive oils, and zero transfats. Nutritionists recommend using GOOD Oil in the diet for childhood brain development, skin and hair health, and easing arthritic joints. Shelf stable, it is designed for the culinary oil section of natural food markets. The GOOD OIL line also includes dressings and mayonnaises, all with the same great taste and health benefits as the oil.

GOOD OIL also boasts environmental benefits.

Once the seeds are harvested to make the oil:

  • The fibers are supplied to BMW for the doors of 3 & 5 Series cars!
  • The straw is used to make Hemcrete, one of the most eco-friendly building materials available. It works as a great insulator as well as 'locking' CO2.
  • The dust cleaned from the seed is supplied to worm farms.
  • Leaf matter supplies essential nutrients back to the soil as a natural fertilizer.

Among others benefits:

  • Hemp is very sustainable and beneficial to the environment.
  • It is planted late in spring allowing the soil to be naturally healthy and wildlife to flourish.
  • It uses NO Pesticides or Herbicides.
  • Provides an excellent habitat for wildlife during the summer months and valuable feeding grounds on the fallow land over winter.
  • Has a long tap root that is excellent for soil structure an health.
  • It is a very efficient carbon sequester. In fact it is 4 times more efficient than trees for the same area.
  • It does not require much fuel to grow and harvest it, as timely sowing, good husbandry and beneficial crop rotation means that there is no need for weed control during the growing period (either mechanical or chemical).

GOOD OIL is created the old fashioned way - hemp is grown without herbicides or pesticides, the seeds are harvested and dried immediately, cleaned, and cold pressed to squeeze out the oil, gravity is used to filter the oil over time, and the oil is bottled. No chemical extraction, no bleaching or deodorizing.

Need an example of what you can do with GOOD OIL? Here's a recipe of one of my favorite things - Bruschetta.

Ingredients

bruschetta.jpg

  • 1/4 cup GOOD Hemp Seed Oil
  • 1 can of tomatoes
  • 1 - 2 tsp of minced garlic
  • 3- 4 tsp of freeze dried basil
  • Salt & Pepper
  • French Bread (approx 1 baguette)

Directions

Preheat over to 450F. Mix the tomatoes, garlic, basil and salt and pepper in a bowl.

Slice French bread and place on a medium sized baking sheet (12") that's covered in foil.

Pour 1/4 cup of Good Oil into a shallow dish.

Coat one side of French bread in Good Oil. You can dip it or use a brush.

Lay the side with Good Oil onto baking sheet that's been covered in foil. After sheet is full of slices of French bread, spoon on mixture from above.

Place in oven for 5 minutes or so.

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14 Responses

I have a bottle of this oil and absolutely love it. I made a dressing with it the other day and cant wait to make it again. Def. a good buy!

Thank you for the post, I have just bought a bottle and let you know about my experience soon. by the way, recipe looks great, I'll give it a try

The bruschetta recipe sounds yummy. Bruschetta is one of my personal faves. My fave oil to use for this kind of thing is flaxseed oil, but hemp oil seems to have a lot of health benefits as well.

Hemp oil? isn't that oil made from cannabis? It's the first time that i hear of it. Never seen it in supermarkets.

I enjoyed this post very much. Thank you to the postee. If u have any questions on other eco-friendly materials contact me....margaret johnson

Now I am craving bruschetta haha, thanks for the tip!

Hi,

Nice post. For the people that don't know, hemp seeds contain many essential fatty & amino acids needed for optimal health, including linoleic acid, alpha-linoleic acid, gamma linoleic acid, & stearidonic acid, in addition to an ideal 3:1 ratio of omega fatty acids.

Hemp seeds also contain: 34.6% protein, 46.5% fat, and 11.6% carbohydrate

Marijuana is not just a drug, its a miracle plant & more ppl need to recognize this.

Erik said:

Hi,

Nice post. For the people that don't know, hemp seeds contain many essential fatty & amino acids needed for optimal health, including linoleic acid, alpha-linoleic acid, gamma linoleic acid, & stearidonic acid, in addition to an ideal 3:1 ratio of omega fatty acids.

Hemp seeds also contain: 34.6% protein, 46.5% fat, and 11.6% carbohydrate

Marijuana is not just a drug, its a miracle plant & more ppl need to recognize this.

It is definitely a drug by definition, but one of the safest ones at that. Definitely safer than alcohol or tabacco which are both legal...

The most important point is that the product contain 0.00% Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). They will not cause a false positive drug or a psychoactive effect.

I'd like to give a try to this useful oil - until I've read your article I was convinced that the most useful oil is olivaceous.

I haven't used hemp seed oil, but would like to try this as an alternative for some of my recipe. Just like the bread recipe you've shared. Baked or toasted bread has been one of my favorite recipe.

Generally it is been said that oil is one of the main reason for increased cholesterol and cardiac arrest. But looking at this it looks that it will change the definition of conventional oil used in our kitchen. Its healthy and safe to use for any purpose,

Hemp is just male cannabis, so in affect yes it is a form cannabis (hemp (male) doesn't produce THC) so it's not going to get you high. Hemp is used for lots of things, including beauty products and it's strong fibres can be woven into clothes.

I'd try it. thanks for the advice!

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