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  • What is cottonseed oil?
  • Cottonseed oil is a vegetable oil extracted from the seeds of the cotton plant after the cotton lint has been removed. It’s composed of linters (10%), cotton shell (40~45%) and kernel. the oil content of cotton seed is 15%-25%, the oil content of kernel is 30%-40% after decorticating.
  • How to extract CSO from cottonseed?
  • Twenty grams of Lankart-57, RH-112, F-20, K-25, and D-9 cottonseed varieties were used to extract CSO by Soxhlet method using 300 mL n-hexane as solvent at 70 °C temperature for 5 h, and result shows oil content in the range of 12 to 14.55% (Shah 2017).
  • How much CSO is in cottonseed oil?
  • Clean and dry cottonseeds are used in oil extraction, and it contains 15–20% CSO depending on the quality and varieties. Oil percent is also dependent on weather, growth, and maturity of cottonseed, and oil yield also varies from the season to season and place to place of cottonseed varieties.
  • What is the difference between cotton oil and cottonseed oil?
  • Cotton (Gossypium sp.) is a commercially important annual fiber crop; cottonseed oil (CSO) is an important product extracted from one of the byproducts of cottonseeds. Oil yield varies with cotton species, places, and season when cotton grown and extraction methods used for oil extraction.
  • How CSO oil is extracted?
  • CSO is extracted conventionally by screw press and hydraulic extraction method as it is an efficient method of extraction without using any toxic solvent. These ME methods give higher quality of oil with natural color and flavor but require long time of interval for processing and refining of oil.
  • What are the non-conventional methods of oil extraction?
  • Other non-conventional methods of oil extraction such as MAE, UAE, SPE, and EAE at optimum conditions also give better oil yield than conventional method within a short period of time. The oil quality, yield, and physiochemical properties are depending on the varieties, places, and season of cotton production.