Soapstock is sludge resulting from alkaline refining of vegetable oils and fats in the fat-processing industry. Categorized as recyclable waste, it has a complex and unstable composition that depends on the oil...
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Sunflowers are valuable not only for their kernels, which are used in vegetable oil production, but also for a wide range of by-products of seed processing: meal, cake, sunflower husks. Sunflower seeds can provide at least 45% of excellent-taste food oil, rich in vitamins E, A, D, and K; and some 39% of so-called recyclable waste that can benefit human economic activity.
Traditionally, husks are used as a fodder additive in livestock and poultry farming. Sunflower husks are rich with pentosans and is used in ground form as an additive to coarse fodder. In bulk, husks are used...
Meal is a by-product of the production of vegetable oils using extraction technology. There are various types of meal, depending on raw material: sunflower, linseed, soybean, cotton, peanut, hemp, etc. In poultry...