Buyers ask us for extra virgin coconut oil every week. Here is the honest answer, which most suppliers will not give you.
There Is No Extra Virgin Grade for Coconut Oil
With olive oil, “extra virgin” is a legal classification with a measured acidity ceiling. With coconut oil, no such standard exists. Neither the Codex Alimentarius nor the Asian and Pacific Coconut Community defines an “extra virgin” grade.
What this means in practice: when a supplier sells you “extra virgin coconut oil”, they are selling you virgin coconut oil with a longer name. There is no third-party test that separates the two.
So What Should You Actually Ask For?
Ask about the four things that are real:
- Unrefined — no refining stage
- Unbleached — no bleaching earth or clarifying agents
- Not deodorised — the aroma is intact
- Cold pressed — ask what temperature the press runs at
If a supplier can answer all four, the label on the drum does not matter. If they cannot, no adjective will help you.
What Supreme Oil Industries Manufactures
We produce virgin coconut oil at Kangayam, Tirupur district, Tamil Nadu, and have manufactured coconut products here since 2004. It is unrefined, unbleached, not deodorised, and cold pressed using traditional wooden ghani and low-temperature extraction.
If your specification says “extra virgin”, this is the oil that meets it. We would rather tell you that plainly than print a word on a label and charge you for it.
Bulk and Private Label
See wholesale terms, or call +91 7373734123. Labelling is agreed per order — if your market expects the phrase, we will not argue with your marketing department.
Frequently Asked Questions
No. Unlike olive oil, coconut oil has no 'extra virgin' classification under Codex Alimentarius or the Asian and Pacific Coconut Community. The term has no measured definition.
In practice it is virgin coconut oil under a longer name. There is no third-party test that separates the two, because no standard defines the difference.
We manufacture virgin coconut oil: unrefined, unbleached, not deodorised, and cold pressed. That is the oil that meets any specification written as 'extra virgin'.
Ask four things: is it unrefined, is it unbleached, is it undeodorised, and what temperature does the press run at. If they can answer all four, the label does not matter.
Labelling is agreed per order. If your market expects the phrase, that is a commercial decision for you.
At our unit in Kangayam, Tirupur district, Tamil Nadu, where Supreme Oil Industries has manufactured coconut products since 2004.