something I read yesterday in my "healthy fats" reading really interested me. This writer said, if the oils you are buying claim to be cold-pressed but don't look like real flax oil looks (with the brown granular sludge that settles to the bottom of the bottle), it's not really cold-pressed but chemically treated. He said that all true nut and seed oils have this sludge...which sounds convincing to me. (olive oil is clear, but if you think about the nature of olives themselves, that would make sense) He said that health food stores sell stuff that is labeled cold-pressed for major money, but it really isn't. I can't verify this, but as I say, it seems logical to me.... so I'll be thinking 'caveat emptor' as I buy.

And yes, for those of you who have never seen real flax oil, it does sorta shock you when your oil looks like someone dragged it through the mud first! lol--but you get used to it.