Oils and fats are extracted from oil-bearing materials like nuts, seeds, fruit and bran by mechanical extraction, solvent extraction, specialty extraction methods, or a combination of two or more of the above processes. Very few oils, like rice bran oil, are extracted using solely solvent extraction. Nonetheless, extraction with solvents is integral to the success...
Glycine max. Soybean. Soya bean. Soja bean. It goes by many names, it is produced in several countries on most continents, and its oil has a number of uses in kitchens the world over. Estimates suggest that over 62 million metric tonnes of soybean oil were produced between 2021 and 2022, and that number is...
What is castor oil? Castor oil is a commercially important oil produced from castor seeds which come from the Ricinus communis plant, native to Africa and Asia. In recent years, Brazil, China and India have been the world’s leading castor oil producers. While India is a major exporter of the oil, the US and the...
