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  • Planters Foods Limited : manufacturers of margarine, compound, edible fats, refined oils, and other high-class food preparations : registered office & works, Brombro Port, Cheshire.
  • Helianthus annuus Greene Asteraceae. Sunflower, Marigold of Peru, Floure of the Sun. Distribution: Peru and Mexico. It was much recommended by Gerard (1633) who advises that the buds, covered in flour, boiled, and eaten with 'butter, vinegar and pepper, far surpass artichokes in procuring bodily lust’. Sadly, today only the seeds of sunflower are consumed, as the source of sunflower seed oil used in cooking. It contains mono and polyunsaturated fats, linoleic acid and oleic acid, and is low in saturated fats. As such it was thought to lower cholesterol and so the risk of heart disease, but it may increase the risk of breast and prostatic cancer. However a recent report BMJ2013
  • Try this exciting new way of making better pastry quicker : Trex 'Fork-Mix' pastry / J. Bibby & Sons Ltd.
  • Try this exciting new way of making better pastry quicker : Trex 'Fork-Mix' pastry / J. Bibby & Sons Ltd.
  • Fine salad oil.
  • Fine salad oil.
  • The fat in food.
  • The fat in food.
  • The fat in food.
  • The fat in food.