Sesame oil is called "sesame oil" because it is taken from the seeds of sesame.

Because sesame oil made from roasted sesame seeds often has a strong aromatic odor, so in the north of China, people call it "sesame oil"; in the south of China, people call it "sesame oil".

China's ancient times, sesame seeds are also known as "houma", "fat hemp", so people call sesame oil "houma oil", "oil", "oil", "oil", "oil", "oil", "oil", "oil", "oil", "oil", "oil", "oil", "oil", "oil", "oil". fat sesame oil", in Japan and South Korea, people also call it "houma oil".

People in order to express their love for sesame and sesame oil, sesame is honored as "Queen of the oil crops", sesame oil is honored as "King of vegetable fats and oils".

In the Three Kingdoms era, China's working people have mastered the technology of sesame oil, Chen Shou "Three Kingdoms. Wei Zhi" recorded: "Sun Quan to the new city of Hefei, full of pampered galloped ...... Folding pine for the torch, filled with sesame oil, from the upper wind, fire thieves attacked the county.

"At that time, the hemp oil is sesame seeds with stone mortar method or wood pressing method of raw pressing.

The main domestic producers of sesame oil are Henan and Hebei regions.

The text in Beitang Shuji quotes the Jin Dynasty's Museum Zhi as saying, "In foreign countries, there is the method of black bean sauce, in which the beans are soaked in bitter wine, stormed to be extremely dry, and then steamed in sesame oil, and then stormed again for three times before stopping.

"This is the earliest record of sesame oil used in food, more than 1600 years ago.

The North and South Dynasties, sesame oil has been widely used in catering, to the Tang and Song dynasties, sesame oil as the finest edible vegetable oil is more widely used.

Fragrant oil is also widely used in medicine, in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" there are a lot of applications, many medical prescriptions have been used today.

Shi Zhen said: into the medicine to eucalyptus oil for the top, white hemp oil second.

With the gradual improvement of the production technology, people's living standards gradually improve the demand and people's nutritional value of the oil gradually developed, the production process and products are increasingly rich in sesame oil, such as industrial sesame oil, medicinal sesame oil, light-colored sesame oil, black sesame oil, health care sesame oil and so on.

Ordinary edible sesame oil is also different, such as baking and frying fire slightly smaller sesame oil general frying with.

Slightly larger frying fire is generally used for cold, soup dishes or stuffing.