• How can edible oil refining reduce production costs?
  • Paper presented at the Edible Oil Refining Update short course at the 103rd AOCS Annual Meeting and Expo, Long Beach, Summary In edible oil refining, the continuous effort to reduce overall production costs is mainly achieved by increasing plant capacities, installation of mono feedstock plants, and increasing the…
  • What is the industrial processing of vegetable oils?
  • The industrial processing of vegetable oils has become increasingly standardized based on national or international standards, and high-capacity production of extraction and refining has been realized .
  • What is vegetable oil refining?
  • As vegetable oil is an important component of the human diet, the source and the processing play an important role in consumer acceptability. To remove impurities that affect the color, palatability, stability, and safety of oil, crude vegetable oil must be refined. This review highlights the processes and steps used in vegetable oil refining.
  • What is edible oil deodorization?
  • In the refining process of edible oil, deodorization is the final step carried out at high-temperature, high-vacuum steam-distillation to produce high-quality refined oil. The deodorization process removes FFAs and volatile aldehyde and ketone compounds responsible for the off-flavor and odor of oil.
  • Why is refining edible oil important?
  • Refining of edible oil by chemical or physical processes aims towards removing the undesirable impurities that affect oil quality and stability. Understanding the chemical nature of oil and associated impurities is important to designing refining steps.
  • How to improve the quality of vegetable oil?
  • It is worth noting that some beneficial components are also removed, such as carotenoids (mainly including ¦Á- and ¦Â-carotene) and tocopherols (such as tocols and tocotrienols) . Thus, a moderate, focused refining process is very important to improve the quality of vegetable oil.