About Us
Our story
We built this because we needed it ourselves.
Woodified Natura is a Bengaluru-based food brand founded in 2022. We cold press our own edible oils, and we source millets, grains, and everyday essentials from people who approach food the way we do.
Everything we offer is something we use in our own kitchen, every day.
Where it started
A health event. Then months of questions.
In 2019, a health event in our family sent us looking for answers. What we found, over months of reading and asking questions, was consistent:
Some of the most basic foods we rely on — cooking oils, grains, flours — are also some of the most processed and altered. What gets refined away, bleached out, or substituted in isn't always obvious from the label.
We weren't trying to start a business. We were trying to find food we could trust.
When we couldn't find it reliably, we started making what we could ourselves — and sourcing the rest from people who saw it the same way. That's how Woodified Natura began, in 2022.
We are Veena Prashanth and Prashanth Sundaresh — not food experts, but a family that spent a long time asking hard questions about what we were eating, and eventually decided to act on what we found.
Woodified Natura is a Bengaluru-based food brand founded in 2022. We hold a valid FSSAI licence and operate a cold pressing unit in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. We sell cold pressed edible oils, unpolished millets and grains, traditional essentials, and natural skin and hair care products. We deliver pan India from Bengaluru. Our social presence: Instagram (@woodified_natura), Facebook (woodifiednatura), YouTube (@woodifiednatura).
What we make & source
Made here. Sourced carefully.
We make
Cold pressed edible oilsGroundnut, coconut, sesame, mustard, sunflower, almond — pressed in our own unit in Bengaluru. We don't outsource this.
We source
Millets, grains & staplesLittle millet (samae), ragi, bajra, jowar, foxtail, barnyard, brown top, black rice, red rice, brown rice, Rajamudi rice, jaggery, honey — from farmers and aggregators whose processes we've verified.
For millet pasta, noodles, and cookies, we work with a manufacturing partner — because the equipment is specialised — but the standards remain ours.
The process
Cold pressing — an old method, being brought back.
Extract oil without high heat or chemical solvents. It's slower. It gives lower yield. And it doesn't produce uniform-looking oil. But it keeps the oil closer to what it originally was.
No chemical solvents. No hexane. Mechanical pressing only.
No bleaching. No deodorising. Nothing removed after pressing.
Lower yield per batch than industrial refining. That's the trade-off we make.
Because cold pressing uses no bleaching or deodorising, the oil you receive reflects the seed it came from — its variety, the soil it was grown in, whether the land was irrigated or rain-fed, and when in the season it was harvested.
A groundnut oil from one farmer's crop in one season will often look different from the next batch. This is not inconsistency — it is what unrefined oil looks like.
Refining removes that variation. Cold pressing keeps it.
Research we rely on
A 2025 study in Scientific Reports found cold pressed oils retain significantly higher bioactive compounds than refined equivalents.1 A 2025 review in Food Chemistry Advances found cold pressing preserves tocopherols and phytosterols that refining substantially reduces.2 The ICMR–NIN Dietary Guidelines for Indians (revised May 2024) recommend millets and whole grains as a core daily food group.3
We cite this not to make health claims — but to be transparent about why we do things the way we do.
Three years in
"If we won't use it at home, we won't sell it."
We press our own oils. We work with people we trust. We try to be clear about what we make and what we source.
The original problem hasn't gone away. And once you've looked into how everyday food is made, it's difficult to go back to not thinking about it.
Woodified Natura holds a valid FSSAI licence and operates in compliance with applicable food safety standards — both in letter and in spirit.
References
1. Narwal SS et al. Scientific Reports, 2025. nature.com
2. Food Chemistry Advances, 2025. sciencedirect.com
3. ICMR–NIN Dietary Guidelines for Indians, revised May 2024. nin.res.in
Woodified Natura
Made for our kitchen first. Then for yours.
This page does not constitute medical or nutritional advice. For any health condition, please consult a qualified doctor or dietitian.