DAIRY GAME 28TH /O4/ 2021: PALM 🌴 OIL PROCESSING.

Plam oil is semi solid at room temperature and its economical to grow. Other vegetable oils have to be partially hydrogenated to make them more solid but in food process creates trans fats or trans fatty acids.
STAGES OF PALM OIL PROCESSING
1.BUNCH RECEPTION : fresh fruits arrives from the field as bunches or loose fruits. The fresh fruit is normally emptied into wooden boxes suitable for weighing on a scale so the qualities of friut arriving at the processing site may be checked

1. REMOVAL OF FRUIT FROM THE BUNCHES
   the fresh fruit bunch consists of fruits embedded in spikelets growing on a main stem. Manual threshing is achieved by cutting the fruit-laden spikelets by hand children and elderly in the village earn income as casual Labourers performing this activity at the factory site.
   
   3.DIGESTION OF THE FRUIT :
   firstly take the palm fruit to the mill

Followed by taking water to the mill to add to the palm fruit in the cylindrical vessel.
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Digestion is the process of releasing the palm oil in the fruit through the rupture or breaking down of the oil bearing cells. The digestion commonly used consist of a steam-heated cylindrical vessel fitted with a central rotating shaft
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1. PRESSING (EXTRACTING THE PALM OIL)
   There are two distinct methods of extracting oil from the digested material. One system uses mechanical processes and is called the dry method. The other called the wet method uses hot water to leach out the oil
   
   Material is placed in a heavy metal 'cage' and a metal plunger is used to press the material.

2. CLARIFICATION AND DRYING OF THE OIL.
   the main point of clarification is to separate the oil from it entrained impurities.

3. OIL STORAGE AND KERNEL RECOVERY:
   These are the last stages in oil palm processing

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