The invention relates to a process for recovery of valuable substances such as flavorings, vitamins and polyphenols from foodstuffs (13) comprising the steps of: a) providing a foodstuff (13), b) Optional addition of water, c) adding a vegetable oil (15) (as the extraction agent, d) grinding of the food (13) and of the vegetable oil 15) to form a slurry (21) and e) separation into an extraction phase, which is an oil phase (25), and a solid phase (29) as a raffinate. The food (13) and the vegetable oil (19) are finely ground, wherein the fine grinding is defined by the fact that the food (13) with the vegetable oil (15) is ground until the oil phase (25) has an average particle size as less 300 microns,
