Degummed Soybean Oil
Soybean oil (soy oil, soya oil) is a product derived from soybean processing.
Most of the free fatty acids and gums naturally present in soybeans are removed by mechanical, physical, or sometimes chemical separation. The oil is then degummed for applications or consumption.
Soy oil plays an especially key role in the life of humans since it is a source of biologically active and valuable fatty acids and is used in to help prevent cardiovascular diseases and facilitate metabolism.
QUALITY / CONDITION
Good merchantable quality, solvent extracted, guaranteed unbleached, produced from sound yellow soybeans
| Quality Parameters | Method | |
| Free fatty acids – (as oleic molecular weight 282) basis | 1% max | AOCS Ca 5a-40 |
| Moisture and volatile matter | 0.2 % max | AOCS Ca 2c-25 |
| Impurities insoluble in petrol ether | 0.1 % max | AOCS Ca 3a-46 |
| Lecithin (expressed as phosphorus) basis | 0.02 % max | AOCS Ca 12-55 |
| Unsaponifiable matter (test as per N.S.P.A.) | 1.5% max | AOCS Ca 6a-40 |
| Color in a 1st Lovibond cell not darker than 50 yellow and 5 red | AOCS Cc 13b-45 | |
| Flashpoint – 250 degrees Fahrenheit (121 degrees C) | min | AOCS Cc 9c-95 |
