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  • BROKEN LINK REPAIRED! Hi Scott, Boiling point determination requires control over temperature, adjustment to atmospheric pressure at your elevation, and is dependent on the molecular composition of ...

  • Hello, We are excited to bring you a new short course before our annual meeting this year, Lipid Oxidation in Foods: Strategies to Control Rancidity and Reduce Food Waste. COURSE DESCRIPTION ...

  • We are excited to bring you a new two-day short course, Edible Fats and Oils Refining: Basic Principles and Modern Practices . COURSE DESCRIPTION: Gain a comprehensive understanding ...

  • Use of shea butter and shea oleine for specialty fat. . Shea butter is the edible fat extracted from the nut of African Shea tree (Vitellaria paradoxa). Consequence of having half of its fatty acids ...

  • At the top of this page on the right side, there is a search box. Enter Lab Deodorization and you will find the very large thread dealing with the subject. There are also diagrams and photos of glass ...

  • Thank you so much Anthony Bimbo for the information. Please, is there anyone with comprehensive detail of laboratory-scale oil deodorization process ? I learnt , the issue had been discussed before ...

  • Hi Aderonke, I would like to have a 1kg sample of stearin. I will connect with you separately for the details, thank you! -Wenqin ------------------------------ Wenqin Tang Food Scientist New York ...

  • There was a detailed discussion about lab deodorization of oils some time back. Not sure how to get to that discussion here but maybe AOCS can dig it up. It showed how to use laboratory glassware to ...

  • Please.contact in person on the below what's app number +919676033102 I am based at sagamu, Lagos, Nigeria. KSRao

  • Hi Aderonke, AOCS has a method search function at https://www.aocs.org/attain-lab-services/methods/methods/search. Enter the keywords of the constituents that you want to test for and it will bring ...

  • Hi, Can you give indication to the effect that which color component is getting reversed and to what extend? Color reversal is a problem beset with many oils, but not very common in case of palm oil. ...

  • I mainly study the resons of edible oils color reversion. I find that this issue is roughly complicated. the mechnism has not been fully understood and revealed. More works are welcomed in this filed.

  • Hello all. I want to deodorize a crude seed oil in the laboratory but I do not have a deodorizer at my disposal. Can you please advise on how to do this process without a deodorizer in my laboratory. ...

  • Good morning all. kindly share with me AOCS protocols for spectrophotometric analysis of TBARS, conjugated dienes, anisidine value and peroxide value. Thank you. ------------------------------ ...

  • Hello Wenqin. Can I know the quantity of shea stearin you need? I am presently working on fractionation and refining of shea butter to obtain olein and stearin. Thank you. ------------------------------ ...