High Quality Seed for Cooking Oil Production
In processing of cooking oil Arkadiv Company ltd uses expressing and pressing special technology. Cooking oil is manufactured from natural raw materials of high quality seeds. Seeds undergo an additional cleaning, drying and peeling.
Purification of refined oil consists of several stages: mechanical peeling, hydration, neutralization, bleaching process, freezing, deodorization and nitration.
In the manufacture of products is no GMO and other nutrient additives of unknown origin, which can negatively effect on health our consumer. Produced cooking oil meets high quality standards. Packaged in bottles, contains all the necessary information about the product and is hygienically clean on the containers.
Seed Preparation and Extraction
Arkadiv Company Ltd source its premium high quality seeds from farmers, majorly in Africa and Eastern European countries. The oil is extracted from the seeds by mixing with a solvent in an extractor. This method is combined with pre-pressing to increase the oil yield. Extraction is an efficient production method that allows us to extract up to 99% of the oil from seeds. The extracted oil must be purified from the solvent and refined.
Filtration and Refining
After pressing, crude sunflower oil is only filtered. It retains tocopherols, phosphatides and other valuable biological components. Such oil is not stored for long, after which it acquires a bitter taste and becomes turbid.
Refined oil is goes through refining. Refining is the process of removing all kinds of non-mechanical contaminants. Cooking oil is treated with alkali whereby fatty acids and phospholipids are removed from the composition. It has a light color and no sediment.
Refined deodorized oil is produced by exposing it to water vapor under vacuum. This process destroys all aromatic substances that can lead to premature oil spoiling.
Quality Control and Packaging
Requirements for safety indicators of cooking oil are predetermined. Technical specifications”. The maximum permissible concentrations of iron and copper are predetermined and are the same for refined and unrefined oils. EU requirements differ from other countries, which can create obstacles for exports. To solve the problem, Arkadiv Company Ltd introduce modern quality control systems for incoming raw materials and finished products, and to implement a food safety management system based on HACCP regulations. Manufactured oil are packing in different bottle sizes with a well detailed labelling.
