Vegetable oil 32-16 group

Vegetable oil

32-16 group

S. Sultonova

What is vegetable oil?

• Is a triglyceride extracted from a plant;
• Any of a group of oils that are esters of fatty acids and glycerol and are obtained from plants
• Any of various oils obtained from plants and used in food products and industrially.

Oils extracted from plants have been used since ancient times and in many cultures

• Oils extracted from plants have been used since ancient times and in many cultures
• Vegetable oil
• are vegetable oils that are liquid at room temperature
• Vegetable fat
• are vegetable oils that are solid at room temperature

	Vegetable Oil
Properties:	The smoke point of vegetable oils vary and are higher for oils used for frying like canola oil (smoke point 242⁰) and safflower oil (smoke point 265⁰)
Types:	The different types of vegetable oils include palm oil, soya bean oil, canola oil, pumpkin seed oil, corn oil, sunflower oil, peanut oil, grape seed oil, sesame oil, argan oil and others.
Uses:	Vegetable oils are used for cooking, fuel, cosmetics, medicines and other industrial purposes.
Fat composition:	Coconut oil has the highest content of saturated fat (92%). Canola and sunflower oil have the least amount of saturated fats (6% and 9% respectively), but contain a higher percentage of monounsaturated fat (62% and 82% respectively)
Made from:	Vegetable and plant sources like seeds, nuts and fruits
Calories:	120 calories per table spoon

Oil Sources	Uses
Coconut	Used in soaps and cooking
Cottonseed	A major food oil, often used in industrial food processing
Olive	Used in cooking, cosmetics, soaps and as a fuel for traditional oil lamps
Palm	The most widely produced tropical oil, also used to make biofuel
Peanut	Mild-flavored cooking oil
Soybean	Accounts for about half of worldwide edible oil production
Sunflower	A common cooking oil, also used to make biodiesel and medicine

Vegetable Oil methods of extraction

• Cold pressed or cold expeller pressed
• expeller pressed
• Solvent extraction
• CO₂ extraction
• Infusion / Macerate
• RBD
• Refined
• Bleached
• Deodorized

The two most used oil extraction techniques

• Pressed Oils
• Solvent extraction

Pressed oils

• This is where the seeds, nuts and other botanical sources of the oil are pressed under very high pressure to produce the oil. Depending on the pressure used, the oil produced will be of varying grades