Fruit Oil Extraction

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I'm making an experiment which compares different oils. It seems I can make oil from any fruit/seed by just pressing it, filtering the liquid outflow, and letting the filtered liquid settle (keeping only the liquid which settles above the water in the end).

Though not refined, I should be able to thereby make olive oil and sunflower oil for starters.

Then, it seems I should be able to make grape oil or grapefruit oil with the exact same procedure. But, I can't find nutrition facts about these two oils on the internet, so I'm wondering if no oil would be produced, or if this is really considered juice (but that doesn't make sense because juice normally includes water; even "concentrated juice" doesn't seem right since it isn't slippery like normal oil). Anyway, what happens when you use the exact same procedure on sweet fruits like this? If you truly make oil, what is the saturated fat content for extraction from a grape or a grapefruit?

Ultimately, I want to compare the saturated fat content of many fruit oils, extracted by a universal method, so a big table here would be the best answer. But, I don't even know if this is possible since people don't even talk about the oils from normal fruits.



Best Answer

For grapes you don't make oil from the fruit, you make it from the seed. The only entries in this table for fruit "flesh" are for oil palm and olives.

Assuming the price of some oils correspond to the difficultly to get a reasonable yield, I think their will not be enough oil in grapefruit (or grape flesh) to extract, otherwise it would probably have been done so commercially already.




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Can you make an oil from any fruit?

Most fruits, except for citrus fruits, cannot effectively be distilled to produce essential oils. Citrus fruits are the exception to my generic fruit comment because citrus fruits are encased in a "rind" that houses a great deal of essential oil that can be steam distilled or cold pressed to produce essential oils.

What is the best oil extraction method?

Steam distillation is the most commonly implemented method of essential oil extraction. Simply put, steam distillation of essential oils works by passing hot steam through raw plant materials. The heat from the steam serves to vaporize the plant material's volatile compounds.

How do you extract oil from plants?

7.4 Extraction techniques
  • 1 Mechanical extraction. Oil extraction by mechanical expellers or presses is the most conventional method. ...
  • 2 Chemical or solvent extraction. ...
  • 3 Accelerated solvent extraction. ...
  • 4 Enzymatic extraction. ...
  • 5 Supercritical fluid extraction. ...
  • 6 Microwave-assisted extraction.




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