• What is corn germ?
  • Corn germ is a substantial byproduct of the wet milling and alcohol industry of corn. Corn germ (dry) contains 35¨C56 % oil, with linoleic acid (C18:2) being the predominant fatty acid (49¨C61.9 %) and the highest level of tocopherol and phytosterol amongst all vegetable oils, which is a cost-effective resource for healthy nutritious oil.
  • How is corn germ extracted from starch?
  • During the wet milling process, the germ is isolated from the starch using cyclone separators, washed, and dried. The dried germ contains about 50% oil, in which the oil constitutes about 85% of the total amount of oil present in the corn. The oil is produced by first expelling the germ and then extracting the expeller cake with n -hexane.
  • How to extract oil from corn germ during flour processing?
  • This work aimed the recovery of oil and protein fractions from corn germ (CG) generated as a by-product during flour processing. Several oil extraction techniques were investigated: hexane at room temperature, hexane at 45 ¡ãC, supercritical carbon dioxide (Sc-CO 2) and Soxhlet with hexane and ethanol.
  • Does corn germ oil contain linoleic acid?
  • Corn germ oil is one of the nutritional vegetable oils with a high content of unsaturated fatty acids (¡Ý 80%), especially linoleic acid (¡Ý 50%) (Table 4 ), total trans fatty acid content was <0.3% [ 124, 125 ]. As known, linoleic is an essential fatty acid for humans that cannot be synthesized in human bodies.
  • Can corn germs be milled before oil extraction?
  • Grinding oilseeds prior to oil extraction may enlarge the interface between material particles and aqueous solvent or enzyme, and then enhance free oil yield. In previous research, colloid milling was employed to mill corn germs (Dickey et al. 2010 ). In this study, a dry milling method was developed to grind corn germ.
  • What is the best corn germ oil production plant?
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