Cottonseed oil is produced from cotton seeds by pressing or extraction.The fat content in seeds small, it rarely exceeds 25%.Using compression can be overcome only 16-18% of the product.This low yield is offset by the fact that cotton seeds are garbage cotton production, they are very cheap.
Cottonseed oil is of several varieties, but for food fit only refined product first grade.It has a golden yellow color.According to the chemical analysis, all vegetable oils have similar properties.They are composed of a large number of unsaturated fatty acids.The cotton product which includes 70-80%.Compared to other vegetable oils, such levels are low.
unsaturated fatty acids play an important role in metabolism.The human body produces them in very small amounts, so the lack of food is replenished.Deficiency of fatty acids may slow the progression of forming the body and negatively affect the health of adults.This also leads to disruption of cholesterol metabolism, which threatens to atherosclerosis.
Cottonseed oil has significant advantages.In its structure it contains a large amount of vitamin E, which stimulates fat metabolism and is necessary for normal functioning of the sexual glands.Another advantage of this product is a substance that strengthens blood vessels, lowers blood pressure and has beneficial effects on the nervous system.
specialists, nutritionists recommend daily in small amounts to use cottonseed oil.Buy it is not so simple.In stores it occurs infrequently.This product is no longer in vogue in Central Asia.Other fatty oils buy much easier.Most of the cottonseed oil produced in the United States.
The unrefined product contains a toxic component as gossypol.The level of concentration defined by the color.Crude oil is a liquid red-brown color, sometimes black, bitter taste and a specific smell.
properties and composition of the cottonseed oil is largely dependent on the type of plant from which it is produced, as well as the conditions of production and the producing area.In the chemical industry cottonseed oil is used for the production of varnish.The crude product is used in folk medicine to treat skin diseases and burns.
Not so long ago, scientists proved that the substance gossypol may be one of the main components of drugs to treat HIV.Studies have shown that gossypol inhibits the development of virus in the blood.
manufacturing process of the product is pretty simple.Seeds separated from the fluff, crushed by special rollers and then heated to 220 ° C in the hearth.To warm up the raw material is placed in sacks of wool shift material from horsehair and squeeze under a hydraulic press.Sometimes using double pressing, first cold and then hot.
