Virgin Coconut Oil

Listing ID #1569977

Virgin Coconut Oil is 100% pure oil that retains the fresh taste and scent of coconuts, while other standard products lose the natural flavor due to the copra-based refining process. 100% cholesterol free Virgin Coconut Oil is nutritious, enhances your cooking, and helps you lead a healthier lifestyle.
One of the main differences between Virgin Coconut oil and refined coconut oil is the scent, taste and the nutritional value. Virgin Coconut Oil retains the fresh scent and taste of coconuts along with nutritional value, where as the copra-based refined coconut oils have no taste at all due to the refining process.
Manufacturing Process

• Cracking the nuts.
• Scraping only the white kernel part, if the brown kernel part is scraped the oil will become yellow (VCO should be colourless).
• Drying scraped coconut below 60 0C and reducing moisture less than 8%. If drying exceeds 60 0C, the colour of oil will change. into yellow and if moisture level exceeds 8% moisture level of the coconut oil will increase.
• Cooling the dried scraped coconut up to room temperature.
• Feeding the dried scraped coconut in to the pressing cylinder and pressing – this method is called Cold press method.
• Collecting the oil in to containers.

• Filtration of oil. If not properly filtered, oil will become turbid.
  
  • Reducing the moisture content of oil using a water bath (Heating up to 55 0C – 600C).
  • Tenth step : Taking sampled and checking the quality of oil according to SLS 32:2002.

Apart from the above parameters physical parameters are also checked

• Colour
• Smell