Meaning & use
cold pressed
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Meaning
adjectivebefore a noun
Describing oil or juice extracted from fruit, seeds or nuts by pressing them without applying heat.
Grammar: Usually comes before a noun, often hyphenated: cold-pressed olive oil.
Patterns
- cold-pressed oil
- cold-pressed juice
I buy cold-pressed olive oil for salad dressing.
The cafe sells cold-pressed juice made fresh every morning.
Cold-pressed oils tend to keep more of their flavor.
Common combinations
- cold-pressed juice
- She drinks cold-pressed juice after her workout.
- cold-pressed olive oil
- Cold-pressed olive oil has a fruity taste.
- cold-pressed coconut oil
- Cold-pressed coconut oil is used in some skin care.
- cold-pressed coffee
- The cafe now offers cold-pressed coffee.
- cold-pressed oil
- Cold-pressed oil is usually more expensive.
Synonyms and how they differ
- unrefined
- Unrefined describes oil not purified by chemicals, but it does not say how it was pressed.
- raw
- Raw means not cooked, whereas cold pressed describes the extraction method.
- fresh-pressed
- Fresh-pressed stresses recency, not temperature.
Opposites
Word family
- press verb
- to push down hard on something
- pressing noun
- the act of squeezing out juice or oil
- cold press noun
- a machine or method for pressing without heat
Commonly confused: cold pressed or cold brew?
cold pressed vs cold brew
Cold brew is coffee steeped in cold water, while cold pressed describes oils and juices squeezed without heat.
Practice
A bottle labeled cold-pressed olive oil means the oil was ___.
Choose one answer.
Cold pressed describes the extraction method, not the storage temperature. Chilling before shipping is a tempting but wrong reading.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “cold pressed”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.