• What is rice bran?
  • Rice bran is obtained from outer layer of the brown (husked) rice kernel during milling. It has emerged as potential by-product from rice processing industry due to the increasing demand for rice bran oil (RBO) as healthy functional food ingredients.
  • What is rice bran oil?
  • Rice bran oil (RBO) is unique among edible vegetable oils because of its unique fatty acid composition, phenolic compound (¦Ã-oryzanol, ferulic acid) and vitamin E (tocopherol and tocotrienol). It has become a great choice of cooking oil because of its very high burning point, neutral taste and delicate flavour.
  • What is an oil expeller press?
  • But that¡¯s not our focus today. An expeller press ¨C also referred to as an oil press, oil expeller, or oil expeller machine ¨C is employed when you want to use the mechanical extraction process. This technique is fairly straightforward: it uses pressure to extrude oil from the seeds, nuts or other oil-bearing materials.
  • How to make rice bran RBO?
  • Cold pressing uses mechanical screw press with mild heating followed by filtration to get clean RBO. Pre-treatment of rice bran with low temperature before cold pressing can produce RBO with superior quality ( Srikaeo and Pradit, 2011 ). A combination of short cooking time and cold pressing is more effective and efficient.
  • Why should you choose Kumar Oil Expeller?
  • The special feature of Kumar expellers are the built-in screw conveyors. These fully-enclosed systems convey oil efficiently while keeping the shop floor clean and your processes running smoothly. Further, when oil is extracted using an oil expeller, there are usually some amount of fines in it.
  • Should rice bran be stabilized after production?
  • It is advised to stabilize rice bran or RBO immediately upon production. High FFA results in high refining loss, therefore, it is beneficial to have FFA level of less than 5% in the crude RBO, and exceeding amount of FFA (> 10%) is unfit for human consumption ( Orthoefer and Eastman, 2005 ).