Oilseeds: Properties, Processing, Products and Procedures

By: G Nagaraj

602 pages, Tabs

Publisher: New India Publishing Agency

Oilseeds: Properties, Processing, Products and Procedures

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ISBN: 9788190723756 Hardback Jan 2009 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 2-4 weeks
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The book serves as a major source of information on all the cultivated oilseeds and major tree borne and minor oilseeds grown globally. Composition, characteristics, properties and utility of different oilseeds and their constituents, namely, oil, protein, carbohydrates, minerals, vitamins and phytochemicals in food and non-food sectors including medicine has been covered in detail. The book also deals with post-harvest technology and processing of oilseeds to obtain good quality products like vegetable oil and oilcakes. The processing aspects like ghani, expeller, extrusion, solvent, and SC-CO₂ extraction along with the refining of oils have been discussed.

Foreword
Preface

1. Introduction
2. Cultivated oilseeds
3. Tree borne and minor oil sources
4. Processing
5. Oilseed products
6. Antinutrients
7. Procedures
8. Appendix

Index