Soybean oil and Sunflower oil

Jul 21, 2013
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About oils derived from plant seeds

   Fatty acid (oil) of Soybean and crude Sunflower oil are one of the important products at livestock and poultry industries that gains from distillation of vegetable seeds such as soybean, sunflower bean, cotton-seeds and etc; Minar international trading co is able to send you these products with high quality and suitable prices all around the world.

History

   Soybeans were discovered in China about 2,800 years BC. But now countries like America and Brazil are the largest producers of soybean

   Soya plants grow well in the 3,000 meters above the sea level at about 22-30 ° C. And the proportion of fat and oil depends on the temperature that soy plant grows.

   This plant reaches the height of 30 to 180 centimeter (cm), and Soybean pods are 2-10 cm in length that each pod contains 4 seeds. 1000 Soybean seeds weigh 50 - 300 gram (gm), and contain 17 - 20 % fat and 30 - 40 % protein. Seeds usually have a light-colored tin crust that got removed before the oil extraction. In general we can say already more than 1500 types of Soybeans are known in world, and they are different by color, size and shape. Economically Soybean is important, because in the last 50 years this oilseed holds one third of total seeds of world. Nowadays 50 % of Soybeans grown in America About 20% of Soybean seed is oil, crude soybean oil with good quality has a vivid color, but with poor quality or spoiled seed we will get dark-brown oil. This product is rather cheap than others. It can be mixed with other oils to deceive customers as a fake oil. Overall this oil has a good quality and it's iodine is about 120 - 143 with melting point of 8 ˚C.