date:Jan 10, 2019
r cent of the oil consumed is refined oil, Prasad said.
The countrys apex food regulator has officially allowed the refining of vegetable oils using permitted food-grade materials. Most of the nutritional components, like tocopherols, tocotrienols, phytosterols, oryzanol lignans, etc. are retained in reasonably higher quantities during refining, he added.
However, during the refining, some of the nutritional components like lecithin have to be removed (during the degumming step) as these compo