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  2. Cooking oil - Wikipedia

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    Cooking oil (also known as edible oil) is a plant or animal liquid fat used in frying, baking, and other types of cooking. Oil allows higher cooking temperatures than water, making cooking faster and more flavorful, while likewise distributing heat, reducing burning and uneven cooking. It sometimes imparts its own flavor.

  3. Types of plant oils - Wikipedia

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    Essential oils are usually extracted by distillation. Maceration is also used as a means of extracting essential oils. [5] In this process, used, for example, to extract the onion, garlic, wintergreen and bitter almond essential oil, the plant material is macerated in warm water to release the volatile compounds in the plant.

  4. List of vegetable oils - Wikipedia

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    Considered promising as a food or fuel oil. [89] Grape seed oil, a cooking and salad oil, also sprayed on raisins to help them retain their flavor. [90] Hemp oil, a high quality food oil [91] also used to make paints, varnishes, resins and soft soaps. [92] Kapok seed oil, from the seeds of Ceiba pentandra, used as an edible oil, and in soap ...

  5. Grease (lubricant) - Wikipedia

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    H1 lubricants are food-grade lubricants used in food-processing environments where there is the possibility of incidental food contact. H2 lubricants are industrial lubricants used on equipment and machine parts in locations with no possibility of contact. H3 lubricants are food-grade lubricants, typically edible oils, used to prevent rust on ...

  6. Edible oil refining - Wikipedia

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    Edible oil refining is a set of processes or treatments necessary to turn vegetable raw oil into edible oil.. Raw vegetable oil, obtained from seeds by pressing, solvent extraction, contains free fatty acids and other components such as phospholipids, waxes, peroxides, aldehydes, and ketones, which contribute to undesirable flavor, odor, and appearance; [1] for these reasons, all the oil has ...

  7. Hydrotreated vegetable oil - Wikipedia

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    The production of hydrotreated vegetable oils is based on introducing hydrogen molecules into the raw fat or oil molecule. This process is associated with the reduction of the carbon compound. When hydrogen is used to react with triglycerides, different types of reactions can occur, and different resultant products are combined. [1]

  8. Vegetable oil - Wikipedia

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    The most widely produced tropical oil, also used to make biofuel: Soybean: 41.28: One of the most widely consumed cooking oils Rapeseed: 18.24: One of the most widely used cooking oils, also used as fuel. Canola is a variety of rapeseed. Sunflower seed: 9.91: A common cooking oil, also used to make biodiesel Peanut: 4.82: Mild-flavored cooking ...

  9. Oleochemistry - Wikipedia

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    Oleochemistry is the study of vegetable oils and animal oils and fats, and oleochemicals derived from these fats and oils. The resulting product can be called oleochemicals (from Latin: oleum "olive oil"). The major product of this industry is soap, approximately 8.9×10 6 tons of which were produced in 1990.