PRODUCTION AND REFINING OF OILS AND FATS

Crushing nuts and oilseeds is a more sophisticated way of producing edible oils, but according to Blank (1942), sesame seeds and linseed were already pressed in Egypt around 259 BCE and some 75 years later, screw and wedge presses were used in ancient Rome for the production of quite a variety of nu...

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Published inThe Lipid Handbook with CD-ROM pp. 157 - 276
Main Authors Gunstone, Frank D, Harwood, John L, Dijkstra, Albert J
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United Kingdom CRC Press 2007
Taylor & Francis Group
Subjects
Food & beverage technology
Organic chemistry
FFA
Caustic Soda
Ancient Rome
Hydrogenated Soya Bean Oil
Edible Oils
Cocoa Butter
Soya Bean Meal
Caustification Process
Soda Ash
Palm Kernel Oil
Palm Oil
CBR
Mechanical Screw Press
NHP
Crushing Oil Seeds
Lauric Oils
Mutton Tallow
Tonne
Seed Oils
Cocoa Liquor
Soya Bean Oil
Physical Refining
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Summary:Crushing nuts and oilseeds is a more sophisticated way of producing edible oils, but according to Blank (1942), sesame seeds and linseed were already pressed in Egypt around 259 BCE and some 75 years later, screw and wedge presses were used in ancient Rome for the production of quite a variety of nut and seed oils and of course olive oil. It was only in 1900 that Anderson introduced the mechanical screw press (Hastert, 1998).
ISBN:0849396883
9780849396885
DOI:10.1201/9781420009675-7