Check out the latest interview and article with Jason Persall about our Canola Oil in the January 2010 edition of Canada's Reader's Digest. Page 103 contains the article on "Good Fats: You CAN Indulge this Season!"

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The Children’s Aid Foundation (CAF) is pleased to announce an exciting new partnership with Pristine Gourmet, a family-owned farming business based in Ontario. Starting in January 2008, 1% of retail sales of Pristine Gourmet’s premium canola oils, soybean oils and vinaigrettes will benefit the CAF and help to serve the thousands of abused, neglected and high-risk children in Canada.

Jason Persall, a grain farmer in Waterford, Ontario, discovered a few years ago that when it’s cold pressed without chemicals or solvents, canola seed produces a vibrant and flavour-packed oil—one that’s brilliant for salads or dipping

Versatile, neutral-tasting canola oil has become such as workhorse in the modern kitchen that most people aren't aware of how recent a creation it is

What is Canada’s Maple Leaf doing beside the words “cold-pressed” and “extra virgin?” Terms we associate with olive oil assure us that flavour, aroma and nutritional benefits are intact. And now they are front and centre on the mock-up of a new label for Pristine Oils. As soy oil trickles from an auger-like press into a storage tank at the Persall Naturals processing facility in rural Waterford, Jason Persall explains.

By our second week on the 100-Mile Diet, my family's three-week experiment of eating only foods that are grown and processed within a tight 100-mile radius of Toronto, we were eating really well.

We usually think of olive oil when we hear the phrase "cold- pressed." A Waterford, Ont., farm family wants us to think of their canola and soybean oils, too. You'll be surprised at the clear, full flavours. Pristine Oils, made by Persall Naturals Ltd., are alternatives to not only olive oil, but those mass-produced, refined vegetable oils used slapdash in the kitchen

Declining grain and cereal prices have tempted some farmers to put a new twist on their typical commodity farming practices by developing and manufacturing value-added alternatives. One soybean and corn producer in Waterford, Ontario has done just that by extracting soybean and canola oil on-farm.