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  • Is shea nut cake a waste product from shea butter processing?
  • Biochemical and microbiological analysis of shea nut cake: A waste product from shea butter processing. Thesis submitted to the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology in partial fulfilment for the award of Master of Philosophy in Biochemistry.
  • How is shea butter fractionated?
  • Once refined, shea butter can be fractionated into two parts: a creamy fat known as shea stearin and a liquid oil called shea olein—otherwise known as shea oil. Fractionation separates these two unique components using either a chemical reagent or physical methods like centrifugation.
  • What is the shea butter export market?
  • The shea export market traditionally traded raw shea kernels rather than shea butter or other finished products. However, as shea applications have evolved and processing methods have improved, shea butter exports have increased as producing countries invest in more advanced equipment.
  • How to extract shea butter in Ghana?
  • Recent studies by Didia et al. (2018) suggest that enzymes technology is the way for shea butter extraction in Ghana. An aliquot equivalent to 50 g of shea nut biomass in 600 mL beaker was stirred with water in the ratio of 1:4 wt/vol and treated with commercial enzymes at optimized conditions.
  • What is shea butter?
  • Shea butter is the oleaginous material obtained from the kernel of the shea nut tree Vitellaria paradoxa. Research has consistently described the shea butter as a vegetable fat extracted from the kernels of the fruit of V. paradoxa, Sapotaceae (Hall et al., 1996; Pontillon, 1996; Kengue and Ndo, 2003; Elias and Carney, 2004; Schreckenberg, 2004).
  • How much is a shea nut worth?
  • The annual worldwide export of shea nut from Africa is 350,000 MT of kernels with a market value of approximately $120 million to producing countries. The multifunctional properties of the shea butter depend strictly on its compositional properties: the peroxide value, moisture content, free fatty acid level and the insoluble impurities.