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Vegetable oils, or vegetable fats, are oils extracted from seeds, or less often, from other parts of fruits. Like animal fats, vegetable fats are mixtures of triglycerides. Soybean oil, grape seed oil, and cocoa butter are examples of fats from seeds. Olive oil, palm oil, and rice bran oil are examples of fats from other parts of fruits. In common usage, vegetable oil may refer exclusively to vegetable fats which are liquid at room temperature. Vegetable oils are usually edible; non-edible oils derived mainly from petroleum are termed mineral oils.
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Cottonseed oil is a commonly used vegetable oil that’s derived from the seeds of cotton plants. A whole cotton seed contains about 15 to 20 percent oil.
Sunflower oil is the non-volatile oil pressed from the seeds of sunflower (Helianthus annulus). Sunflower oil is commonly used in food as a frying oil, and in cosmetic formulations as an emollient. The world’s total production of sunflower oil in 2014 was nearly 16 million tonnes, with Ukraine and Russia as the largest producers.
Sunflower oil is well known because of its diversity of fatty acids profiles which allow different uses (food: dressing salads, margarines; nonfood: agro fuel, lubricants). Besides, crude oil contains high amounts of desirable minor components (tocopherol, phytosterols, polyphenols, phospholipids…) that present important nutritional features with a positive impact on human health. The different steps of the refining process have as main objective to remove contaminants and other compounds that could hamper the continuity of the process or alter oil during storage. An indirect consequence of this treatment used to preserve food safety is that micronutrients of interest are also partially eliminated reducing the nutritional quality of the oil.
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Production and Refining Process of Vegetable Oil:
Oil extraction by traditional methods often requires various preliminary operations, such as cracking, shelling, dehulling, etc., after which the crop is ground to a paste. The paste, or the whole fruit, is then boiled with water and stirred until the oil separates and can be collected. Such traditional methods have a low rate of efficiency, particularly when performed manually. Oil extracted by pressing without heating is the purest method and often produces an edible product without refining.
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Modern methods of oil recovery include crushing and pressing, as well as dissolving the crop in a solvent, most commonly hexane. Extracting oil with a solvent is a more efficient method than pressing. The residue left after the removal of oil (oilcake or meal) is used as feedstuff.
First, the vegetables are crushed to extract the oil. The crushed mixture is then heated and mixed with hexane, a chemical which helps to extract the remaining oil. The solids are removed and used for animal feed, and the hexane is distilled from the crude oil.
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The refining process consists of three steps: refining, bleaching, and deodorizing (RBD).
Refining: The oil is treated with phosphoric acid, which causes the gums to separate from the oil so they can be filtered out. The oil is then treated with caustic soda, which reacts with the unwanted free fatty acids (FFA) turning them into soap; the soap is separated from the oil.
Bleaching: The oil is heated and mixed with filter aids, such as diatomaceous earth and clay. These filter aids absorb the coloring and other impurities in the oil. The oil is then filtered to remove the filter aids together with all the impurities.
Deodorizing: The oil is heated under a vacuum to about 480° Fahrenheit. Steam bubbles through the oil, removing the remaining free fatty acids and impurities.
Market Outlook
The edible oil segment is currently undergoing a metamorphosis as a result of spiraling prices of soft oils – sunflower and Soyabean. Premium branded vegetable oil makers are expanding their product portfolio to include less-up market oils from cottonseed, groundnut or even palmolein in consumer packs.
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The food applications is the largest application for vegetable oil and while the non-food (industrial) applications market will continue to be the fastest growing market mainly due to the biodiesel sector. The biodiesel feedstock market is the second largest revenue generator for vegetable oil, contributing approximately 13% of the total vegetable oils market.
Major vegetable oils that find commercial applications include palm oil, castor oil, soybean oil, and sunflower oil. Sunflower oil emerged as a major product segment in the vegetable oil market on account of its health benefits such as cardiovascular benefits, helps in preventing arthritis, asthma, and colon cancer. The market has thus been gaining importance as a major health care product as it helps in cell structure repair apart from the aforementioned benefits. Stringent biofuel policies in Europe and the U.S. over the accessibility of soybean oil have diverted this market towards other vegetable oils such as palm, palm kernel, and sunflower oils.
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Vegetable oil is plant or vegetable derived oil that is in liquid state in room temperature. It is a plant extracted triglyceride. Vegetable oils that are solid in room temperature are known as vegetable fats. Primarily, oil is extracted from plant seeds, although they can be derived from other plant or vegetable parts as well.
The edible oil market in India is projected to grow from around $21.5 billion in 2019 to $35.2 billion by 2025 due to increasing disposable income and rising consumer awareness about healthy lifestyle & wellness. The global edible oil market is anticipated to witness a substantial growth owing to increasing popularity of unrefined, unprocessed, healthy, and organic oil. In the coming years, vegetable oils with low cholesterol, fat, and calories are likely to gain high response due to growing health awareness among people across the world. In addition, major improvement in retail network, increasing crop yields, oil production, and growing economies are some of the prominent factors supporting the growth of the global edible oil market. Furthermore, growing popularity of canola oil, trans-fat free soybean oil, and emerging preference for olive oil will drive the global market for edible oil.
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Key Players:-
Adani Wilmar Ltd.
Agarwal Industries Pvt. Ltd.
Ambar Protein Inds. Ltd.
Atul Oilcake Inds. Ltd.
Bunge India Pvt. Ltd.
Cargill Foods India Ltd.
Chakan Vegoils Ltd.
Geeta Refinery Pvt. Ltd.
Growmore Solvent Ltd.
Louis Dreyfus Co. India Pvt. Ltd.
M K Agrotech Pvt. Ltd.
Poshak Oils & Fats Ltd.
Prudential Sri Jagannath Agro-Tech Ltd.
Raghunath Cotton & Oil Products Ltd.
Shri Sainath Proteins Ltd.
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