Palm oil is known as one of the world's top three vegetable oils, how is this oil extracted? You may not have seen this fruit before, but the oil extracted from this fruit is called palm oil, and you have certainly eaten it in the food of your life.
First, palm oil is one of the world's important sources of vegetable oil, the proportion of the world's total oil and fat production of more than 30%, and soybean oil, rapeseed oil and known as the world's three major vegetable oils, respectively, in the catering industry, the food industry and the oleochemical industry has a wide range of uses. At present, China has become the world's largest palm oil importer. China's palm oil consumption is about 6 million tons per year, accounting for 20% of the total market. Southeast Asia and Africa as the main palm oil producing areas, production accounts for about 88% of the world's total palm oil production.
Second, the oil palm tree is a four-season flowering, fruit and year-round crop, the production cycle can be maintained for 25 years. Palm oil is pressed from the palm fruits of the oil palm tree. Oil palm fruits contain two different oils, palm oil from the pulp and palm crude oil from the white palm people. Therefore, the oil palm tree is a good economic plant. Workers load the picked palm fruits into vehicles for transportation to processing. The production process of good palm oil and palm man oil is complex, mainly through several important processes such as sterilization, refining, bleaching and deodorization.
Third, first of all, the palm fruit will be poured into the machine inside, the conveyor equipment will transfer the palm fruit to the boiler inside, through the high temperature water boiling, both sterilization, but also can make the pulp soften. After coming out from the high temperature boiler, it is the process of crushing and extracting, which can get the gross palm oil and palm break from the palm fruits pile, meanwhile, the white palm kernel will be separated in the process of crushing. After crushing and removing the shell again, the remaining kernel is extracted to obtain gross palm man oil.
Fourth, after the primary stage of extraction, the gross palm oil and gross palm oil is sent to the refinery refining, after the removal of free fatty acids, natural pigments, rich odor, it becomes palm salad oil. After refining palm oil in the liquid state is close to colorless and transparent, in the solid state is close to white palm oil, slightly sweet, with a pleasant violet flavor, semi-solid at room temperature, its consistency and melting point depends largely on the content of free fatty acids, the international market puts the content of free fatty acids is low. The palm oil with low free fatty acid content is called soft oil, and the palm oil with high free fatty acid content is called hard oil.