	US 11,891,584 B2
	Oils without unwanted contaminants
Falk Brüse, Wayzata, MN (US)
Assigned to Cargill, Incorporated, Wayzata, MN (US)
Appl. No. 16/609,803
Filed by CARGILL, INCORPORATED, Wayzata, MN (US)
PCT Filed May 23, 2018, PCT No. PCT/US2018/034072 § 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 31, 2019, PCT Pub. No. WO2018/217856, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 29, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 17172752 (EP), filed on May 24, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0056116 A1, Feb. 20, 2020
Int. Cl. C11B 3/00 (2006.01); B01D 1/08 (2006.01); C11B 3/04 (2006.01); C11B 3/12 (2006.01); C11B 3/14 (2006.01); C11B 3/10 (2006.01); A23L 5/20 (2016.01); A23L 5/49 (2016.01); A23L 33/00 (2016.01); A23D 9/04 (2006.01)

CPC C11B 3/001 (2013.01) [B01D 1/08 (2013.01); C11B 3/04 (2013.01); C11B 3/10 (2013.01); C11B 3/12 (2013.01); C11B 3/14 (2013.01); A23D 9/04 (2013.01); A23L 5/20 (2016.08); A23L 5/276 (2016.08); A23L 5/49 (2016.08); A23L 33/40 (2016.08)]

11 Claims

1. A process for reducing the content of free chloropropanols and chloropropanol fatty acid esters in a vegetable oil, and the process is comprising the following steps in order:

a) degumming step,

b) neutralization step,

c) first bleaching step,

d) first deodorizing step at a deodorization temperature below 230° C.,

e) short path evaporating step,

f) second bleaching step,

g) second deodorizing step

h) collecting a vegetable oil having a content of free chloropropanols and chloropropanol fatty acid esters of not more than 500 ppb and having a color expressed as its red component equal or below 3.0;

wherein the vegetable oil is derived from palm oil.