{"id":854,"date":"2018-07-16T16:02:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T16:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/americanpacific-chemicals.com\/?p=854"},"modified":"2018-07-31T16:09:04","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T16:09:04","slug":"hexane-food-grade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanpacific-chemicals.com\/?p=854","title":{"rendered":"Hexane Food Grade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hexane extraction in soyfood processing<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">The selection of hexane as the solvent of choice for extraction of oils, other nonpolar\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">constituents of plant foods, or removal of undesirable constituents from plant foods is one of the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">most common practices in the food industry. The solvent extraction process generally involves\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">solubilization and partitioning in hexane, separation of the extract, and solvent volatilization and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">removal to recover the extracted constituents. Hexane extraction of <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-855 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/americanpacific-chemicals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/hexane-185x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/americanpacific-chemicals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/hexane-185x300.jpg 185w, https:\/\/americanpacific-chemicals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/hexane.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\" \/>oilseeds was introduced in\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">the 1930s and there is no evidence to substantiate any risk or danger to consumer health when\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">foods containing trace residual concentrations of hexane are ingested. Hexane extraction of oil\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">from soybeans is established as a safe and efficient process. No evidence exists to associate\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">health risks or dangers from eating soyfoods exposed to hexane extraction processes<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Vegetable Oil Processing. Processing of soybeans traditionally consists of five unit operations:<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">1) oilseed harvesting, elevator handling, and storage; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">2) preparation (flaking) of soybeans for\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">solvent extraction; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">3) solvent extraction, oil\/solvent separation and volatilization of solvent; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">4)\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">volatilization of residual solvent from flakes; and<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"> 5) oil refining. The extraction process separates\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">the oil from the flakes by \u201cwashing\u201d with hexane in a counter current extractor. Volatile hexane is\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">removed from the separated oil and flakes by increasing the temperature through direct or\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">indirect contact with steam. Residual hexane is very susceptible to vocalization during heating\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">of the oil or flakes under high vacuums and temperatures in selected processes designed to\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">produce soy foods or soy ingredients for human consumption with negligible hexane residual.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/americanpacific-chemicals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/EXXSOL-HEXANE-FLUID1.pdf\">MSDS<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/americanpacific-chemicals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/haxanecatalog.pdf\">Catalog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hexane extraction in soyfood processing The selection of hexane as the solvent of choice for <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/americanpacific-chemicals.com\/?p=854\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industrial-chemicals","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanpacific-chemicals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanpacific-chemicals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanpacific-chemicals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanpacific-chemicals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanpacific-chemicals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/americanpacific-chemicals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":861,"href":"https:\/\/americanpacific-chemicals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions\/861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanpacific-chemicals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanpacific-chemicals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanpacific-chemicals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanpacific-chemicals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}