Let's write: 7-days writing challenge (Extracting palm oil) by @nsikakedem

Hello, beautiful and dynamic steemians here in steemalive community and steemit block chain as a whole. I'm coming your way today through my blog to share some thought with us on extracting of palm oil.

We all understand that to everything there is a process. The red palm oil can't be exempted. Just before one can have a red oil for any purpose the palm matured red palm fruit must be available. However, let me take you through few local processes to extract the oil.

Harvesting:

Firstly, the matured and reddish palm fruit is harvest from the palm tree. In as much as the focus is to get red oil from. The fruit remain the top priority. When once that is gotten the, the process has began. A sharp machete can assist in doing this.

Fruit Threshing

This has to do with the process of removing the fruit from the bunches. To aid easy removal of the the fruit. The bunch of palm fruit can be kept for some days to ease the removing process. At this stage, all the shafts and other unwanted materials are removed and left with the palm fruits alone.

Cooking/pounding

The palm fruit can then be cooked to have it ruptured and soften. When this done, it can then be filtered out in to a mortar and then pounded with breaking the kennel. At a point, the ruptured part will be off the seed. At this point, it's set for the the next stage.

Digestion Process

This is the most important part in palm oil extraction. If this part is not carefully adhered to, the extracting process will fail. Locally, the pounded palm fruits will be poured into a pressing device for oil extraction. Aside from this, the seeds can by hand be selected out and the ruptured part pressed in little portions to get the oil. Further more, the ruptured portion can be bagged using a sack bag and then press to get the oil.

Purification of palm oil

During this whole process, impurities is always accompanied with the extracted oil. To have it purified, the extracted oil will have to be steam again and in the process, the water content will dry and other substances will settle to the bottom of the pot or on top of the oil while the real red oil will be collected. This is but a traditional way of refining red palm oil. The modern and industrial way can be applied in case of large quantity of palm fruit.

Natural stuffs are always the best. It's can never be as the adultrated oil. The freshness of it and the originality of it remains. Try taking fresh and natural food stuffs as they have a way of nurturing the human body.

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