What’s Inside the eBook
In this guide, we’ll examine the compounds and conditions that make plant-based oil valuable and discuss how you can fine-tune your extraction system to produce the highest-value oil possible—regardless of which seeds you’re crushing.
Triglyceride is the primary form of dietary lipid found in fats and oils in plants and animals. The most energy dense nutrient, fats provide more than twice as much caloric content (or energy) as carbohydrates or proteins.
Thermal treatment helps prepare oilseeds for pressing by rupturing the cell walls to release the oil trapped inside the seeds, lowering the viscosity so the oil flows more freely from the press. Heat also plays an important role in deactivating harmful enzymes.
By carefully controlling temperatures and heat exposure times with the right extraction equipment, processors can preserve the quality of edible oils throughout processing.