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  • What is cottonseed oil processing?
  • Generally speaking, cottonseed oil processing mainly including the flowing production process, they are seed cleaning, cracking, flaking, cooking, expelling and refining.
  • What is cottonseed oil & why is it important?
  • Within the cottonseed oil processing plant, oils extracted from cottonseed must be refined to remove gossypol, a naturally occurring toxin that protects the cotton plant from insect damage. Cottonseed meal is a good source of protein. It is the byproduct remaining after cotton is ginned and the seeds crushed and the oil extracted.
  • What are the products of cottonseed?
  • Cottonseed products yield per ton of seed crushed. Cottonseed contains hull and kernel. The hull produces fibre and linters. The kernel contains oil, protein, carbohydrate and other constituents such as vitamins, minerals, lecithin, sterols etc. Cottonseed oil is extracted from cottonseed kernel.
  • How much CSO is in cottonseed oil?
  • Clean and dry cottonseeds are used in oil extraction, and it contains 15–20% CSO depending on the quality and varieties. Oil percent is also dependent on weather, growth, and maturity of cottonseed, and oil yield also varies from the season to season and place to place of cottonseed varieties.
  • What is the difference between cotton oil and cottonseed oil?
  • Cotton (Gossypium sp.) is a commercially important annual fiber crop; cottonseed oil (CSO) is an important product extracted from one of the byproducts of cottonseeds. Oil yield varies with cotton species, places, and season when cotton grown and extraction methods used for oil extraction.
  • When did the cottonseed industry start?
  • Cottonseed processing industry made its beginnings with the invention of the cotton gin in 1793, that led to the availability of large supplies of cottonseed possible, but it was in the early twentieth century only that cottonseed was utilised in commercial quantities for production of oil and other cottonseed products.