It started at our own dining table.
"If we couldn't trust the oil in our own kitchen, how could anyone?"
A few years ago we did something simple: we read the labels of the food we were feeding our own family. Refined. Blended. "Natural" in big letters, a list of things we couldn't pronounce in small ones. The mustard oil that was supposed to carry the warmth of every Indian home had been stripped, mixed and bleached until nothing of the seed was left.
We come from a family of farmers. We knew what real oil smelled like — sharp, golden, alive. So we went back to the soil. We planted yellow mustard on our own land, brought back the wooden kachi ghani our grandfathers used, and pressed the very first batch for ourselves.
The difference wasn't subtle. It was the difference between food that nourishes and food that merely fills. We decided no family should have to gamble on what's in their bottle.
So we built Organic Roots around one promise: you should be able to see the entire journey of your food — from the seed we sow to the oil that reaches your table — and trust every step of it.
— The Organic Roots family