If buying organic is important to you, you need to look beyond the labeling and pay more attention to where your black seeds are grown and what the priorities are of the growers.
For example, countries in the Middle East that are large growers of Nigella Sativa seeds use pesticides, which means their Nigella Sativa seed products will not be organic, regardless of how they label the product. Their reasoning is that they didn’t use specific pesticides in growing the product, but that doesn’t mean they didn’t use any.
Other large producers like Turkey, India, Ethiopia, Syria, and Egypt aren’t growing organic seeds, either. And if there are no organic seeds, then there’s definitely no organic oil.
Growing Nigella Sativa flowers for black seeds carries the same risks as growing any other agricultural product. If farmers leave their crops vulnerable to pests, they could end up losing half their profit. It’s a business, pure and simple, and farmers are doing everything they can to maximize their crops. This usually means using pesticides, regardless of what the label says.
But truth be told, there isn’t really much that is organic, even foods that aren’t grown with pesticides. Chemicals and pesticides are in our soil and water. We’ve been farming this way for decades, and there’s just not much protection from these components. Even the organic vegetables you buy at the store have likely been exposed to some form of chemical, and it’s almost impossible to escape completely from this cycle