Edible
Extra virgin avocado oil
Pressed only from ripe fruit that passes hand sorting. Green, fresh and full of flavour, for premium retail, chefs and food brands.
Extra virgin detailsThika, Kenya · Since 2013
Cold-pressed avocado oil, from fruit we sort by hand.
Crofts presses extra virgin, crude and refined avocado oil from Kenyan Hass and Fuerte avocados, for importers, refiners, food brands and cosmetic makers, in bulk or under your own label.
- Founded
- 2013
- Oil pressed a year
- 400+ MT
- Pressing season
- Apr–Oct
- Great Taste awards
- 2018 & 2022
Our oils
Three grades from one careful pressing.
Ripe fruit becomes extra virgin oil. Overripe fruit becomes crude oil, so no avocado is wasted.
Not edible as pressed
Crude avocado oil
Cold-pressed from overripe fruit that cannot make extra virgin oil. Used in cosmetics, or refined into an edible oil.
Crude detailsEdible
Refined avocado oil (RBDW)
Crude oil that has been refined, bleached, deodorised and winterised. Neutral in taste, pale yellow and shelf-stable.
Refined details
From fruit to oil
Every avocado passes through a person’s hands before it is pressed.
Sourced
Fruit comes from our network of smallholder farmers across Kenya.
Ripened
We ripen the avocados in-house until they are ready to press.
Sorted by hand
Our team checks each fruit. Ripe avocados go to extra virgin oil; overripe ones go to crude oil.
Cold-pressed
A single cold-press extraction at low temperature, with no solvents, chemicals or additives.
Packed in season
We press from April to October and do not hold oil over from one season to the next.
Why buyers work with us
A producer, not a trader.
We press our own oil
Ripening, sorting, pressing and packing all happen at our own factory in Thika, on machinery imported from Europe.
Oil from this season
Pressed between April and October and supplied fresh, never carried over into the next year.
Your label or ours
Tins and glass bottles under the Crofts name, or filled and labelled for your brand.
From 250 ml to 21 tonnes
Retail packs, jerrycans, drums, IBCs and flexitanks, so one supplier covers every order size.
Recognised for taste
Great Taste awards in 2018 and 2022.
Great Taste is run by the Guild of Fine Food in the UK, and every entry is judged blind by panels of food experts. Our extra virgin avocado oil received two stars in 2018 and one star in 2022.
Sourcing
Fair prices for the farmers who grow our fruit.
We buy from smallholder farmers across Kenya, pay above the market price for their avocados and advise them on caring for their trees.
How we sourceTalk to our sales team
Tell us the oil, the packaging and where it is going.
We will reply with a quote and what we can supply from this season's pressing.