โ Scribed by D. Gunstone, Frank
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
The weekly, quarterly, and annual publications of Oil World (ISTA Mielke GmbH, Hamburg) contain valuable information for the oils and fats industry. Since 1958, Oil World publications have presented data on production, imports and exports, and prices, both globally and by country. Their occasional Review Publications show trends and changes over 40 years. But their data are confined to 17 commodity oils and fats. What about the other sources of supply? This article will discuss some other lipid sources which already find niche markets. Some of today's major sources were small in the middle of this century. Does today's list of minor oils contain major oils of tomorrow? Unfortunately it is not possible to say.
The oils and fats covered in the publications of Oil World include 13 vegetable oils from 12 plant species (soybean, cottonseed, groundnut, sunflower, rapeseed, sesame, corn, olive, palm, palmkernel, coconut, linseed, and castor) and 4 animal fats (butter, lard, fish, and tallow/grease). The annual production of these commodities now exceeds 100 million tonnes and they range from ~23 million tonnes of soybean oil to <1 million tonnes for each of sesame, linseed, and castor oils. One obvious omission from this list is cocoa butter (annual production about 1.2-1.3 million tonnes). Padley [1] discussed 28 other vegetable oils in The Lipid Handbook. These include aceituno, babassu, buffalo gourd, candlenut (lumbang), chinese vegetable tallow, cocoa butter, crambe, cuphea, evening primrose, grape seed, hemp seed, kapok, mowrah butter, mustard seed, oiticica, poppy seed, rice bran, sal fat, shea nut, stillingia, tall, tea seed, tobacco seed, tung, ucuhuba, vernonia, and wheat germ. Even this list does not include all the interesting minor oils, which attract research attention by agronomists and chemists or are already available to meet niche market needs. In addition, some commodity oils are now available in forms with very different fatty acid composition from normal.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES