Английская Википедия:Corn oil

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Corn oil, five liters
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Plastic jugs in cardboard boxes, 15 kg each

Corn oil (North American) or maize oil (British) is oil extracted from the germ of corn (maize). Its main use is in cooking, where its high smoke point makes refined corn oil a valuable frying oil. It is also a key ingredient in some margarines. Corn oil is generally less expensive than most other types of vegetable oils.

Corn oil is also a feedstock used for biodiesel. Other industrial uses for corn oil include soap, salve, paint, erasers, rustproofing for metal surfaces, inks, textiles, nitroglycerin, and insecticides. It is sometimes used as a carrier for drug molecules in pharmaceutical preparations.

Production

Almost all corn oil is expeller-pressed, then solvent-extracted using hexane or 2-methylpentane (isohexane).[1] The solvent is evaporated from the corn oil, recovered, and re-used. After extraction, the corn oil is then refined by degumming and/or alkali treatment, both of which remove phosphatides. Alkali treatment also neutralizes free fatty acids and removes color (bleaching). Final steps in refining include winterization (the removal of waxes), and deodorization by steam distillation of the oil at Шаблон:Convert under a high vacuum.[1]

Some specialty oil producers manufacture unrefined, 100%-expeller-pressed corn oil. This is a more expensive product since it has a much lower yield than the combination expeller and solvent process, as well as a smaller market share.Шаблон:Cn

Country Production, 2018
(tonnes)
1 Шаблон:USA 1,707,600
2 Шаблон:CHN 483,700
3 Шаблон:BRA 145,548
4 Шаблон:RSA 83,700
5 Шаблон:JPN 82,503
6 Шаблон:ITA 69,300
7 Шаблон:FRA 67,900
8 Шаблон:BEL 64,700
9 Шаблон:CAN 62,300
10 Шаблон:TUR 53,000
11 Шаблон:ARG 46,800
Source : FAOSTAT[2]

Constituents and comparison

Шаблон:Vegetable oils, composition

See also

References

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Further reading

External links

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