edible oils
corn oil
Best suited for fried meats or be used in recipes that moderately need oil.
Specifications / Analysis Value Property / Limits:
- Flavor: no peculiar smell, tasty
- Relative density (20°C): 0.917 – 0.925
- Refraction index (20oC): 1.456 – 1.468
- Flash point (oC): Min. 215
- Peroxide value (meq O2/kg): Max 3
- Moisture & volatile matter at: Max. 0.05
- Acid value (mg/ KOH/ g): Max. 0.2
- Iodine value: 107 – 135
- Insoluble impurities (%): 5,00%
- Saponifiable matters (mg/ KOH/ g): 187 – 195
- Unsaponifiable matter (g/ kg): Max. 28
- Cold test (5.5h refrigerated at 0°C): clear transparent
soybean oil
Contains vitamins K, E and B
Specifications / Analysis Values Property / Limits
- Specific gravity: 0.916 – 0922
- Refractive index: 1.465 – 1.475
- Heavy metals, method II: 0.001% max
- Free fatty acids: <2.5 ml of 0.02 N NaOH
- Cotton oils: passes
- Color gardner AOCS: Td la-64 4 max
- Appearance: greenish-yellow, bright & clear oily liquid
- Flavor & odor: bland, almost odorless
- Typical peroxide value: 26< 1.0 meq/kg
- Act as antioxidants
- Beneficial to the nervous system and skin protection.
rapeseed oil
- Refractive index at 40 deg C: 1465 – 1467
- Density at 20 deg C: 0.912 – 0918 g/ml
- Free fatty acids: max 0.01%
- Iodine value (Wijs): 105 – 126 g 12/100g
- Lovibond – coler value: max 15 yellow/max 1.5 red
- Peroxide vale: max 1.0 meqO2/kg
- Phosphor: max 10 ppm
- Water: max 0.05%
- Smoke point: 220 deg C
- Cold test at 0 deg C for 15 hours: passed
- Fatty acid distribution (per 100g):
- Total fat: 92g, of which saturated: 6 g, monounsaturated: 59g, polyunsaturated: 27 g
- Nutritional value (per100g):
- Energy: 3404 kj (828 kcal)
- Carbohydrates: 0 g
- Cholesterin: 0 mg
- Salt: 0 g
- E-Vitamin: 25 – 30 mg
sunflower oil
Extracted from the seed of the flower, sunflower oil is increasingly indicated as beneficial to health.
- Refractive index: 1461 – 1468
- Density at 20 deg C: 0.918 – 0923 g/m3
- Free fatty acids: max 0.1%
- Iodine vale (Wijs0: 125 – 145 g
- Lovibond-color value: max 15 yellow / max 1.5 red
- Phosphor: max 5 mg/kg
- Moisture: max 0.06%
- Smell and taste: Odorless and tasteless
- Colt test at 0 deg C: negative after 24 hours
- Shelf life: 24 months from date of manufacture
- Fatty acid distribution (per 100 g):
- Total fat: 92 g, of which saturated 10 g, monounsaturated: 25 g and polyunsaturated: 57 g
- Nutritional Value (100 g):
- Energy: 3400 kJ (829 kcal)
- Carbohydrades: 0 g
- Protein: 0 g
- Cholesterin: 0 mg
- Salt: 0 g
canola oil
Extremely beneficial because it has high amounts of Omega-3, and Vitamin E.
Specifications / Analysis Values Property / Limits:
- Free fatty acids: 1.5% max
- Moisture & impurities: 0.1% max
- Cinematic viscosity: (40C) mm2/s max 38
- Flash point (oC): Min. C150
- Chlorophyll content: ppm Max 30
- Neutral oil: 98.5% Max.
- Loss: 1.5% Max.
- Phosphorous content: ppm max 120
- Euric acid: 2.00% max
- Oxidation stability (110C): h min 5.0
- Neutralization value: mg KOH/g max 2.0
- Ash content: 0.01% max
- Iodine value g/100g min: 100 max 120
- Water content: 0.075% max
palm oil
Produced from the palm fruit (known as dendezeiro), originally from West Africa.
Free fatty acid (% as palmitic): 0.10 Max
- Colour (5 ¼” lovibond cell): 3.0 R Max
- Moisture and impurities (%): 0.10 Max
- Iodine value (Wijs method): 50.0 Min
- Cloud point (°C): 33.0 – 39.0 Max
- Slip melting point (°C)
- Peroxide value (Meq/kg): 1.0 Max 1.1