ABSTRACT
Crushing nuts and oilseeds is a more sophisticated way of producing edible oils, but according to Blank (1942), sesame seeds and linseed were already pressed in Egypt around 259 BCE and some 75 years later, screw and wedge presses were used in ancient Rome for the production of quite a variety of nut and seed oils and of course olive oil. It was only in 1900 that Anderson introduced the mechanical screw press (Hastert, 1998).
