Fruit and Vegetable Processing
Offers the non-specialist an insight into the ranges of methods and equipment available for preserving products, increasing the quality and range of foodstuffs and indicating where the hazards are when setting up a small food processing concern.
Published: 1993
Pages: 72
eBook: 9781780442259
Paperback: 9781853391354
| INTRODUCTION ix | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Raw materials from which oil can be extracted 1 | |||
| 2 Traditional methods of oil extraction 2 | |||
| Oil-seed processing | |||
| Nuts | |||
| Mesocarps | |||
| Women and oil extraction technologies | |||
| 3 Improved technologies | |||
| Pre-processing methods and devices | |||
| Oil extraction devices | |||
| Refining | |||
| Systems for oil processing | |||
| 4 Case studies | |||
| Oil expellers | |||
| Oil plate presses | |||
| Alternative energy sources | |||
| Technology change to meet women's choice | |||
| Summary | |||
| 5 Planning a project or enterprise | |||
| First questions | |||
| Background questions | |||
| Effect of improved technology on traditional processing industry | |||
| 6 Pre-processing and extraction equipment: facts and figures | |||
| Pre-processing | |||
| Expellers | |||
| Ghanis | |||
| Screw presses | |||
| Hydraulic presses | |||
| REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING | |||
| CONTACTS |