Canola oil is a vegetable-based oil found in countless foods / seeds.
Many people have cut canola oil out of their diet due to concerns over its health effects and production methods. Commercial canola oil making process uses baking soda for bleaching process that may cause diabetes.
Normally Canola oil is made using the following process
Seed cleaning. Canola seeds are separated and cleaned to remove impurities such as plant stalks and dirt.
Seed conditioning and flaking: Seeds are pre-heated to about 95℉ (35℃), then “flaked” by roller mills to rupture the cell wall of the seed.
Seed cooking. The seed flakes are cooked by a series of steam-heated cookers. Typically, this heating process lasts 15-20 minutes at 176-221℉ (80°-105°C).
Pressing. Next, the cooked canola seed flakes are pressed in a series of screw presses or expellers. This action removes 50-60% of the oil from the flakes, leaving the rest to be extracted by other means.
Solvent extraction. The remaining seed flakes, containing 18-20% oil, are further broken down using a chemical called hexane to obtain the remainder of the oil.
Processing the oil. The extracted oil is refined by varying methods, such as steam distillation, exposure to phosphoric acid, and filtration through acid-activated clays.
Unfortunately, this involves using lots of chemicals which can be dangerous to your health. I highly recommend everyone to use organic Canola oil. You can buy canola seeds from mandi and get it pressed from local oil pressing machine. THis will be 100% pure.
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14 окт 2024
