RE: SPAM: SPAM: expeller pressed is not always RBD

[Guest guest]

The coconut oil from kokonut pacific is actually had pressed. They call it

" micro expeller pressed " . Actually it is DME which stands for direct micro

expeller pressed and I even have pictures here of the press and how it is

done. It is done on a small scale and the DME is quite small.

I have seen sun or solar dried and smoke dried copra. It is not nice and

white and there are bugs on it. The solar dried has more mold than the

smoke dried. There is still a fragrance to it if they do not do a full

refining.

I agree that expeller pressed oil is not RBD, but it is also true that most

RBD oil is expeller pressed. However, it is my experience that copra does

require " cleaning up " of the oil. Maybe not all the steps, but as a crude

oil with no processing, filtering, etc people would not use it. The oil,

even with a quick drying will have a light brown color, sediments, and it

will have a slightly stale taste. At least this has been our experience.

It is possible that with a couple of diatomaceous earth filtering, you can

remove the stale taste and color, while still retaining some flavor. I know

there are people who do this. However, there has been some concern about

aflatoxin.

Annette

SPAM: SPAM: expeller pressed is not

always RBD

Hi Annette,

not all expeller pressed oil is RBD, and not all copra is dirty and

needs refining.

One company that produces virgin expeller presed oil is Kokunut

Pacific, in Australia: http://www.kokonutpacific.com.au

And Enfield Agrobase in India makes a clean, organic, solar dried

copra which is then expeller pressed. In both these cases, the oil

produced is white, fragrant, tasty, and non-RBD.

Just my 2 cents.

Sharon