Plant Oils Flashcards
1
Q
What contains oil?
A
fruit and seeds
2
Q
Examples; of fruit and seeds
A
e.g Avocado and olives are oily fruits
Brazil nuts, peanuts and sesame seeds are oily
3
Q
How do they get the oil out?
A
Plant material is crushed and press it between two metal plates which then squashes the oil out, then put it in a centrifuge (spindryer)
4
Q
Another way of getting oil out?
A
Solvents
5
Q
W hat dos distillation do to the oil?
A
Refines it and removes water, solvents and impurities
6
Q
Benefits of vegetable oils
A
- provides energy
- Nutrients in it (vitamin E)
- essential fatty acids
- cook foods faster
- chemicals soluble in oil
7
Q
Rapeseed oil + soybean oil
A
processed and turned into fuels - biodiesel
