Unrefined cooking oil and raw vinegar compliment each other. Oil’s lipids or fat repel water. Vinegar is mainly acidified water. Its acetic acid breaks down fat. Culinarily, oil and vinegar are a special combination. They balance and harmonize nourishment and taste when paired.
Pure unrefined vegetable oil provides fatty richness without adding saturated fats and cholesterol. Vinegar adds a bright, sour sweet taste and helps metabolize fat. Oil and vinegar enhance and balance taste.
Pure unrefined vegetable oil enhances taste. It softens the bitter taste of some raw vegetables like that of salad greens. The tartness of vinegar stimulates digestion of fat and tenderizes protein, especially in meat and poultry. Vinegar’s acetic and other organic acids regulate fat metabolism, causing the body to burn more fat. It also decreases the storage of fat.
Oil and Vinegar – the superb salad dressing base.
Balance Achieved
The goal of salad dressing is to enhance the natural taste of a salad without smothering it. Use any of a variety of unrefined oil, raw vinegars, herbs, and spices for a balanced salad dressing. The same is true for vinaigrettes, marinades, basting sauces, spreads, and as bread dip. Homemade versions of them using artisan ingredients tend to taste far better and be much healthier than commercial choices. EDEN Oils & Vinegars are wise choices. Stupendous results take only a few minutes. When refrigerated, they keep very well for quite a long time.
A balance of ingredients is achieved through practiced learning, adjustments, and being familiar with the ingredients. How should it be used? What should it be used on? What are the other meal components? Answers to those questions, and experience, will guide us. There are no fixed rules to guide an artful use of various oils and vinegar. General suggestions are: for mild dressings and vinaigrettes use 3 parts oil and 1 part vinegar; for bolder dressings and marinades, use equal portions of oil and vinegar; for bread dip, use 2 parts oil to 1 part vinegar, or just oil with minced garlic; for enhancements try adding organic, non-irradiated herbs, spices, garlic, onions, shallots, a dash of citrus zest or juice. Other inspiring ingredients are mustard, horseradish, sea salt, soy sauce, and natural sweeteners like real maple syrup, honey, and mirin. For creamy dressings, add Unsweetened EDENSOY or EDEN Sesame Tahini. Practice, persistence, and patience result in the rewards and pleasure of culinary success.
Pleasing Benefits
EDEN Oil and Vinegar offer appealing taste with substantial health benefits. Unrefined vegetable oil is beneficial ‘good fat’ (monounsaturated and polyunsaturated) that regulates cholesterol and energizes. Vinegar from fermented food helps digestion, especially that of fat, while helping to ensure healthy gut bacteria. Vinegar also speeds up digestion of starches (carbohydrates) and is known to facilitate weight loss. EDEN oil and vinegar versions contain valuable polyphenol antioxidants.
Each type of oil and vinegar has unique characteristics that make certain combinations better suited for particular foods, dishes, or sauces. These two foods in their natural state have been important in humanity’s diet for thousands of years.
Unrefined Vegetable Oil
Unrefined EDEN Vegetable Oils are beneficial good fat and deeply delicious food enrichment. The first stone cold pressing of three olive varieties from centuries-old orchards in Andalusia, Spain creates award winning EDEN Extra Virgin Olive Oil.
EDEN Safflower Oil is unrefined, expeller pressed high oleic organic safflower seed from the northern High Plains.
New organic Black Sesame Oil is from the first pressing of whole, raw, organic black sesame seed with less than 1% free fatty acid.
Extra virgin Sesame Oil is deliciously versatile and superb for all styles of cooking.
Toasted Sesame Oil and Hot Pepper Sesame Oil infused with red chili peppers are expeller pressed from whole sesame.
The aroma, taste, nutrients, and benefits of vegetable oil remain intact in unrefined versions. These values are erased in ‘refined’ commercial cooking oil. ‘Refined’ commercial vegetable oils are excessively heated and treated with a host of untoward chemicals to bleach, deodorize, standardize, preserve, and make last forever. They are unnatural, yet marketed as ‘refined’, falsely implying they are better. Cheap and easy is the goal that leads to this kind of degradation.
Unrefined EDEN Vegetable Oils are free of chemical solvents. Only commonsensical, straightforward, low heat expeller/cold pressed, and light filtering are used. Nutrition, energy values, and the character of the oilseed are maintained. Their health benefits, essential fatty acids (EFAs), vitamins, and antioxidants remain intact. After pressing, unrefined EDEN Vegetable Oils are lightly filtered and bottled in amber glass to protect nutrients and taste. Gluten free. 
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Traditional Fermentation
Culinary vinegar is from the starch or sugar of fermented grain, fruit, or starchy foods. These traditional fermentation vinegars contain a wealth of beneficial organic acids, enzymes, and phytonutrients. Most of today’s commercial vinegar is watered down synthetic acetic acid derived from petrochemicals, GMO enzymes, synthetic color, refined sugar, and other chemicals. They are only appropriate for use as cleaning solvent or a chemical agent.
EDEN Vinegar organic acids, bacteria, enzymes, and phytonutrients are traditional natural foods. Millennia of accumulated records and experienced evidence about vinegar efficacy exist. An intelligent, discerning approach to a vinegar choice for food and body care is well worth the effort, and strongly advised. What vinegar is made from, and how it is made, make a huge difference in taste and effect. Knowledgeable chefs use traditionally brewed vinegar like EDEN.
Organic EDEN Apple Cider Vinegar and Red Wine Vinegar are traditionally crafted, natural, raw, and lightly filtered with no chemical additives or GMO enzymes. A smooth rich taste and pleasant fruity aroma are the result. "Mother" of vinegar, a gelatinous presence in raw traditional vinegar, contains a culture of friendly bacteria somewhat like a sourdough starter. Mother of vinegar is why raw, unpasteurized, traditional vinegar has a reputation for being beneficial.
Organic EDEN Brown Rice Vinegar is fermented organic short grain brown rice, koji Aspergillus oryzae, and mountain spring water. Rare today, authentic brown rice vinegar is highly valued for its surprisingly sweet, smooth, and mellow taste. It makes the best sushi rice. Modern imitation rice vinegar is a concoction of synthetic acetic acid, toxic caramel color, refined sugar, GMO derived enzymes, and chemical additives.
EDEN Ume Plum Vinegar ume su is shiso leaf-infused pickling brine from making umeboshi plums. While not true vinegar, this blend of beneficial organic acids and brine has been used as, and called, vinegar in Japan for thousands of years. Its unique taste can transform food. The ruby red color is from red shiso leaves and contains no chemical additives or red dye. It is commonly used in salad dressings, marinades, dips, sprinkled on steamed or sautéed vegetables, and for making refrigerator pickles.
EDEN Vinegar contains beneficial organic acids, bacteria, enzymes, and phytonutrients. Millennia of records and anecdotal evidence of vinegar’s merits exist. A discerning approach to choosing vinegar for food and body care is advised, and well worth the effort. What vinegar is made from and how it is made make an enormous differences in taste and effect. Knowledgeable chefs use traditionally brewed vinegar like EDEN. Gluten free. kosher
Amber Glass Protected
EDEN Oil & Vinegar is bottled in protective amber glass to maintain authentic taste and nutrients. It prevents photo-oxidation light damage. Light induces chemical changes that cause discoloration and taste degradation. Amber glass, more costly but well worth it, is the best protection for food. The bottles are nitrogen flushed for added protection. Pure, inert nitrogen replaces oxygen-containing air in the unfilled portion of the bottle. Plastic bottles adulterate food and taste. Amber glass best protects food quality.
A Principled Natural Food Company
What principles?
Principles that respect life and contribute to its well-being. Commonsensical, straightforward, and forthright methods in actions with other people. Universal principles guiding Eden Foods since 1968.
Translating macrobiotic principles into dietary suggestions points to the basic need of pure whole grain being the fulcrum of one’s balanced diet. Once that is accomplished, most everything else will take care of itself at every level; personal, mental, physical, emotional, societal, economic, political, spiritual, environmental, and interpersonal.
Improved judgment results over the long run.
A transition from commercial food to healthy food centered upon whole grain is not an easy process. It is a basic necessity to accomplish freedom, harmony, and to nourish intuition. The transition requires focused persistence. Considerable experience and knowledge about food, its uses, and benefits are available to help those who work to make the change.