PROCESS FOR PRODUCING COLD PRESSED PALM FRUIT OIL

• Main Authors: AHMAD JARIL ASIS, YOSRI MOHD SIRAN, KAMAL WOK, NIK SUHAIMI MAT HASSAN, NORHAFIZI MD HASHIM
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 30.09.2021

Provided is a process for producing cold pressed palm fruit oil with maintained natural antioxidant and bioactive compound contents to be substantially similar to prior to undergoing the process, the process including the steps of cleaning (2) palm fruits until all foreign objects such as trash and dirt are substantially removed, sterilizing (3) the palm fruits from step (a) at temperature of between ambient temperature to 60?C at atmospheric pressure for a time period of between 5 to 240 minutes to produce substantially sterilized palm fruits, digesting (4) the substantially sterilized palm fruits at temperature of between ambient temperature to 60?C at atmospheric pressure for a retention time period of between 5 minutes to 60 minutes to produce substantially digested palm fruits, pressing (5) the substantially digested palm fruits at temperature of between ambient temperature to 60?C and at pressure of between 0 to 80 bar to produce the cold pressed palm fruit oil; and filtration (8) of the cold pressed palm fruit oil to remove gums such as phospholipids and phosphorus.