Search for an extra virgin coconut oil manufacturer in Tamil Nadu and you will find plenty. Every one of them is selling virgin coconut oil.
The Grade Does Not Exist
For olive oil, “extra virgin” is a legal category with a measured free-acidity limit. For coconut oil, there is no equivalent. Neither the Codex Alimentarius nor the Asian and Pacific Coconut Community defines an extra virgin grade.
No standard means no test. No test means nobody can prove the claim — or disprove it. It is a word on a label.
What a Tamil Nadu Buyer Should Do Instead
Judge the process, because that is measurable:
- Is it unrefined?
- Is it unbleached?
- Is it undeodorised?
- What temperature does the press run at?
Then ask where the copra came from. In this state it is a fair question, because the answer is usually “the open market”, and that tells you the supplier does not know either.
What We Actually Make
Supreme Oil Industries manufactures virgin coconut oil at Kangayam: unrefined, unbleached, undeodorised, cold pressed, from copra we dried ourselves. If your specification says extra virgin, this oil meets it.
We would rather explain that than charge you for an adjective. Bulk terms: wholesale page.
Buyers searching for an extra virgin coconut oil manufacturer Tamil Nadu can verify will find the same answer here as anywhere honest: what exists is virgin coconut oil, and it is pressed at Kangayam.
Frequently Asked Questions
No. Unlike olive oil, coconut oil has no extra virgin classification under Codex Alimentarius or the Asian and Pacific Coconut Community. There is no test that defines it.
They are selling virgin coconut oil. The extra virgin label is marketing, not a grade. Judge the process instead.
Is it unrefined, unbleached and undeodorised, what temperature does the press run at, and where did the copra come from.
Because most suppliers buy copra on the open market and cannot tell you its moisture or how it was dried. We dry our own.
We manufacture virgin coconut oil that meets any specification written as extra virgin, because there is no measurable difference between the two.
Kangayam, Tirupur district, Tamil Nadu.