Which essential oil brands are food safe?

Hi All

So in my mission to find essential oils I noticed all of them say they are NOT food safe. Even ones that I see getting used in Chefsteps recipes. I'm thinking that they're just being litigation wary or something but then again I'd also rather not poison myself.

Maybe we could put together a list of known-to-be-safe-for-internal-consumption essential oils? Or their brands or some way of knowing which I can and cannot use in cooking.

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Juliane_33287

very good point! I've been looking for food safe fragrances and oils for a very long time and I found a new brand that has started to market its products as especially appropriate to cooking & baking in european organic food stores. I don't know if their products might also be available in the US. have a look at their website: http://taoasis.com/de/kunden/produkte/baldini/bio-aromen.html you can change to english - but then the description of the products get somehow lost. If you can't order from them, I would recommend to ask at your local pharmacy.

julian.lo

On a whim, I found some essential oils that were USDA certified organic in the aromatherapy section of Bristol Farms (maybe Whole Foods stocks them too?). I assume that certification makes them food safe, but someone please correct me if I'm wrong. Regardless, the bottle doesn't have a do not eat warning or anything like that. I used some essential lime oil to make some lime sugar from the Alinea cookbook and it turned out great! Here's a link to the brand that I used: http://www.shopsimplers.com/products/essential-oils.html?SID=&limit=all

drbraga

From what I understand you should use CPTG Certified Pure Therapeutic Grade® essential oils. A few brands I know of are doTerra and Young Living. There are lots of recipes on Pinterest that use this type of essential oil Good luck!

Nice_857353

Dude, for me you are the firs person who got interested in it. Never experienced adnt thought about using oils as food or food adding. Everything is poison and everything is cure, dose matters. I can give you a brand I've been using but you better read the instruction first. By the way tthey do produce some vegan stuff, so it might be about your question. https://oilscenter.com/camphor-essential-oil

David_Hasselhoff_799215

You should take a closer look at https://kaissaoil.com/en/ that also bring really quality product with that cooking oil, as they manufacture it observing all quality standards and certificates. Really worth trying.

Jannifer_Johnson_907830

I found Calamus Essntial Oil it tends to be food safe, but i'm not sure..

Akriti_Sharma_935252

The Vilina refined oil are regarded as safe for Food flavouring on the level of parts.