Refined soybean oil is used as a cooking oil or salad oil. It is the second most consumed vegetable oil in the world after palm oil. Soybean oil may also be partially hydrogenated to make vanaspati (a ghee alternative (mainly consumed in India and nearby countries), shortenings or margarines.
What is soybean processing industry?
Therefore, the soybean processing industry, i.e., solvent extraction plants to extract the triglyceride oil from soybeans and feed making plants to produce various animal feeds from the extracted soybean oil meal (and other oil meals), have flourished in these countries in the past several decades.
What is desolventized Crude soybean oil?
The desolventized crude soybean oil is subjected to several refining steps – degumming, alkali refining (free fatty acid neutralization), bleaching and deodorizing – to obtain refined soybean oil, which is used for cooking and other applications.
What is refining in edible oil processing?
Refining is the last step in edible oil processing. We are committed to making every drop of oil safe, healthy and nutritious. Value-adding by-products may be produced from processing stages like Degumming, Neutralization, Bleaching, Dewaxing/Winterization and Deodorization.