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Conscious Food's Virgin Cold-Pressed Groundnut Oil targets health-conscious consumers who prefer traditional, additive-free cooking oils over solvent-extracted refined variants. The cold-pressing process preserves natural flavour compounds and avoids synthetic processing aids, which is a genuine positive. However, the very same absence of refining means allergenic peanut proteins are retained in the oil — a potentially life-threatening issue for peanut-allergic individuals — and that aflatoxin contamination from raw groundnuts is less thoroughly reduced than in refined counterparts; IARC classifies naturally occurring aflatoxins as Group 1 human carcinogens. The single most useful thing a consumer should know: this is a clean, additive-free oil, but it must be sourced from a supplier with rigorous aflatoxin testing, and people with peanut allergy, infants, young children, pregnant women, and anyone with liver disease should treat it with specific caution.
