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Hexane used in oil extraction

shubham_rane666

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Many oils like sunflower, safflower, soyabean, groundnut etc are extracted using hexane or its derivatives. Hexane basically absorbs the oil leaving behind the fibre. Then after heating hexane evaporates leaving behind oil. It can be done without hexane but doing it with hexane gives it higher yield for a given substance. There are physically extraction methods though they're used rarely as they provide less yield and may be used by organic manufacturers. So does hexane really evaporates or in trace amounts remains? Can someone speak on this?
 
The boiling point of hexane is 68 degrees (celcius) so...

Provided that the mixture is heated past this point for long enough, and hexane hasn't reacted with any of the components of the oil or fibre to form more dense compounds with higher boiling points, then technically no hexane should remain within the final product.
 
It isnt healthy to eat those oils.

Through heating an oil loses its. Beneficial properties. That always happens when oil is heated. But, those so called cooking oils are WAY down in quality compared to cold pressed extra vierge oils. .

Often manufacturers of those so called cooking oils, get the leftover peels, in example from the olives which they then treat with butane (I think it was butane it started with a b) or hexane or whatever to get the absolute last out there. Which is then often even completely cut to make non smelling refined oil.

Practices like heating, or making refined oil, causes transfats to appear. Your body cant use transfats at all. People whom have been on a diet of Becel or margarine, have basicly been on a diet of transfats, plant based. Their braincells are STARVING for fats they can actually use. This starving can result in slowness of thought, and unability to do quite a few things properly. Or in another way.

Is why we have spoken about grass fed butter in the past. Butter is a product made from something in animals milk. Its diary, not plant in nature.

Also, if you like eating fries, frikandel, hamburgers, that food is often heated in a batch of oil. And the oil is repeatedly used. This oil is not beneficial to you at all. If you want to have the best quality of oil, you would have to change it every time after heating. Which is expensive.
Every time oil heats, the worse its quality becomes.
 
Yes it is less affected and that's why traditionally used in india for repititively cooking or frying in same oil. I asked it for seriousness of hexane. Patanjali has launched their line of cooking mustard oil which they say is hexane free oil processing. There are really few hexane free oils on budget and they're sesame seed oil and mustard oil which many find filthy and even I dont use it because of cacrinogens produced when its heated for long.
 

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