• Which vegetable oil is imported by Egypt?
  • Table 2: Quantities of various vegetable oils imported by Egypt from 2015 to 2018 in ton). It is clear that palm oil is the major oil imported by Egypt whereby it represents about 60% of total imported oils in 2018 while the quantity imported from corn oil is the least being about 3% in the same year.
  • What is the production-consumption gap in edible oil in Egypt?
  • The production-consumption gap for edible oil in Egypt is estimated to be 97%. This is due to the population growth of around 1.5 million people annually (CAPMAS, 2014; El-Hamidi and Zaher, 2018) according to the Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation.
  • Is Physical refining better than chemical refining for vegetable oil?
  • The effects of process conditions on standard quality parameters and the nutritional quality of the oil are well documented in the literature [5, 19, 71, 72]. In conclusion, physical refining offers great several advantages over chemical refining for vegetable oils (Table 2).
  • How has the production of cottonseed oil changed in Egypt?
  • According to that Figure, it is quite clear that the production of cottonseed oil in Egypt has been decreased greatly over the years from 1969 whereby it was 125 thousand tons oil in 1969 to 10 thousand tons only in 2019. 2.
  • Do cotton seeds contribute to Egypt’s production of vegetable oils?
  • Cotton seeds contribute to Egypt¡¯s production of vegetable oils by about 90% (Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, 2007 ). The area cultivated by cotton was 993 thousand feddans in 1990, but it declined to 471 thousand feddans in 2007.
  • What is vegetable oil used for?
  • Vegetable oil which can be extracted from oilseed is considered one of the main components of our food, and it can be also used for the production of non-conventional alternative fuels.