GRAPE SEED OIL

Product Description

Grape seed oil has a moderately high smoke point of approximately **6 °C (**1 °F). As a result, it is less ideal than several other cooking oils for high temperature cooking, but can nevertheless be safely used to cook at moderate temperatures during stir-frying, sautéing or deep-frying. Due to its clean, light taste, and high polyunsaturated fat content, it is generally better used as an ingredient in salad dressings and mayonnaise and as a base for oil infusions of garlic, rosemary, or other herbs or spices rather than for cooking.

The metabolic energy density of grape seed oil is typical of vegetable oils: approximately 3,**0 kJ (**0 kcal) per **0 g, or **0 kJ (**0 kcal) per *5 ml tablespoon.

Grape seed oil is a preferred cosmetic ingredient for control of skin moisturization. A light, thin oil, grape seed oil leaves a glossy film over the skin when used as a carrier oil for essential oils in aromatherapy. It contains more linoleic acid than many other carrier oils. Grape seed oil is also used as a lubricant for shaving.

Although grape seeds contain antioxidants and other biologically active compounds,[1] the cold-pressed grape seed oil contains negligible amounts due to their insolubility in lipids.[2] For instance, sufficiently high amounts of resveratrol occur in grape seed for it to be extracted commercially,[3] yet it is almost entirely absent in the grape seed oil.