Broighter Gold Rapeseed Oil in Northern Ireland listed by Amazon
Broighter Gold, Northern Ireland's award winning producer of cold-press rapeseed oils, has won its first business with Amazon. The company, which is based on a family farm near Limavady in county Derry, has nine products listed by the online retailer as well as a gift pack.
The main range in 250ml bottles includes the original Liquid Gold at £6.99 and eight flavoured oils such as Truffle and Porcini and Basil infused at £7.99. The gift pack of four 150ml oils retails at £13.99.
Leona Kane, who founded Broighter Gold in 2011, says: "We were delighted when Amazon decided to list our range of products. It's a hugely significant development for the business which gives us an important platform in Great Britain, a market we have targeted for some considerable time."
Based on an extensive farm run by Leona's husband Richard, Broighter Gold has won a series of national awards for quality and provenance. The oils are cold-pressed from oil seed rape grown on the family farm. The oil producer was successful most recently in the Bla na hEireann Irish National Food Awards at Dingle in county Kerry.
In addition to its success throughout Ireland and in achieving top international awards for excellence including several UK Great Taste Awards, Broighter Gold supplies its products to La Grande Epicerie de Paris and Brown Thomas in Dublin.
The oils are also being used increasingly by leading chefs, including Dublin's Clodagh McKenna, as an alternative to olive oil because of the high content of Omega 3,6,9 and Vitamin E and also because rapeseed is probably the most versatile cooking oil. Broighter Gold oil also has half the saturated fat of olive oil.
The oils are produced at Broglasco, the family farm, in Myroe, near Limavady, on the edge of Lough Foyle just above sea level on reclaimed land. The arable farm covers 360 acres - around 200 being used to grow oil seed rape.
The fertile ground grows high yielding crops of wheat, barley, oilseed and potatoes. Ireland's greatest find of gold artefacts from the Iron Age of the 1st century BC was found on the farm and is now held by the national Museum of Ireland.
In addition to the development of rapeseed oil, the company has expanded into industrial tourism by developing an exhibition centre through the international EconoMusee network that enables visitors to see how the oil is produced and used in cooking.