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  2. Tomato seed oil - Wikipedia

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    Tomato seed oil is a vegetable oil extracted from the seeds of tomatoes. The possibility of extracting oil from tomato seeds was studied in the United States in 1915. Seeds were obtained from a variety of locations and bred and pressed to produce oil. This was refined using an alkali and then clarified with fuller's earth.

  3. Tomato - Wikipedia

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    The tomato (US: / t ə m eɪ t oʊ /, UK: / t ə m ɑː t oʊ /), Solanum lycopersicum, is a plant whose fruit is an edible berry that is eaten as a vegetable. The tomato is a member of the nightshade family that includes tobacco, potato, and chili peppers. It originated from and was domesticated in western South America.

  4. Types of plant oils - Wikipedia

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    Industrial machines for extracting oil mechanically are call expellers. Many expellers add heat and pressure, in order to increase the amount of oil extracted. If the temperature does not exceed 120 °F, the oil can be called "cold-pressed". [3] In modern vegetable oil production, oils are usually extracted chemically, using a solvent such as ...

  5. Solanum - Wikipedia

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    Solanum is a large and diverse genus of flowering plants, which include three food crops of high economic importance: the potato, the tomato and the eggplant (aubergine, brinjal). It is the largest genus in the nightshade family Solanaceae , comprising around 1,500 species.

  6. Lycopene - Wikipedia

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    Lycopene dietary supplements (in oil) may be more efficiently absorbed than lycopene from food. [4] Lycopene is not an essential nutrient for humans, but is commonly found in the diet mainly from dishes prepared from tomatoes. [4] The median and 99th percentile of dietary lycopene intake have been estimated to be 5.2 and 123 mg/d, respectively ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. Solanum lycopersicum - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 4 September 2020, at 17:17 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  9. Cherry tomato - Wikipedia

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    Cherry tomatoes are believed to be the direct ancestor of modern cultivated tomatoes and is the only wild tomato found outside South America. [5] The tomato is thought to have been first domesticated in the Puebla-Veracruz area of Mexico and to have reached this area from South America in the form of a weedy cherry tomato.