Abstract

Virgin coconut oil is a new highly value added version of coconut oil in health food markets Extraction of virgin coconut oil from coconut kernel is a major influential step for their commercialization There are many extraction methods among which cold and hot extraction are conventional extraction processes The hot extractions carried out by pressing the clean ground and fresh coconut to yield coconut milk followed by heating at high temperature that could remove the useful micronutrient In cold process extraction of coconut oil takes place through destabilization of coconut milk emulsion without heating such as fermentation chilling and thawing or centrifugation enzymatic treatment Hot extraction processes has been provide better yield than cold extraction processes In cold extraction processes there are various methods

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