GSRF is a research organization, well known for conducting application oriented research aiming at problem solving and innovative solution. Since its establishment in 1978, GSRF has been actively involved in undertaking research projects assigned by various Government Departments and industrial organizations, private and public bodies in the fields of oil and oil-based products, animal feed, food and related materials, biofuels, oil substitutes etc. Research was conducted on food safety and nutrition, micronutrient enrichment of oils, oil based products and common food items, detection of adulteration and contaminants, utilization of indigenous nontraditional resources to increase the availability of food, oil and animal feed, detoxification of nontraditional oilcakes for utilization as animal feed, micronutrient enrichment and recovery of value-added by-products such as wax, lecithin, vitamin E, oryzanol and fatty acids, from the vegetable oil refining industry, development of interesterified fat based Vanaspati, margarine etc. The Foundation has conducted successfully many important projects on behalf of the Directorate of Vanaspati, Oils and Fats, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, Government of India, CSIR, Ministry of Food. Some project titles are Blending of Oils; Development of Soya Dal; Recovery of Oil from Spent Bleaching Earth; Preparation of Industrial​ Lipases; Study on Shelf Life of RBD Palmolein; Study on the use of Mustard Oil in Vanaspati; Upscaling Inter-esterification Process to Pilot Plant Stage; Preparation of Low Trans-nutritious Margarine and Shortening Fat Bases; Development of Micro-Nutrient enriched High Performance Multiple Blended Oil Mediums; Development of High Performance Oil Blends; Development Of Medium Chain Triglycerides; Recovery, Upgrading, Modification of Lecithin from Rice Bran Oil; Detection of Argemone Oil in Edible Oils; Scale Up Trial of Partial Hydrogenation of Soybean Oil; Recovery of Useful Bye-products Like Lecithin from Indigenous Non-traditional Oil Sources; Development of Salolein and Mahuaolein as Direct Cooking Oil Analogous to Palmolein etc Department of Bio-technology, Government of India identified GSRF as a participant in a multi-institutional project to conduct research on “Detoxification and Utilization of Key Agro-Forest Based Non Conventional Oil Cakes in the Feeding of Livestock’. In addition, the Foundation would also be associating in another DBT financed research project on biotech feed. The Foundation has served the nation also through active association in standardization of various techniques and parameters for production and processing as well as in standardizing methods of testing the purity and adulterants in edible products. Alongwith, the Foundation has been associated with private and public organizations in new product development and diversification.​ The Foundation has, on behalf of the Bureau of Indian Standards and the Central Committee on Food Standards, established and standardized methods .