You Know Tomato Seed Oil?

Tomato seed oil is a natural high quality edible oil extracted and refined from tomato seeds. Tomato seed oil is A high linoleic acid cooking oil, and rich in lycopene and vitamin E and vitamin A precursor carotene. Tomato seed oil made from fresh tomato seeds without deep refining has obvious preventive and inhibitory effects on prostate cancer, digestive tract cancer, cervical cancer, skin cancer and other diseases because it contains lycopene and various oil-soluble vitamins. Often eat tomato seed oil, can regulate the physiological function of the human body and human development, and can prevent cell aging, enhance skin elasticity, play a cosmetic role in the skin, has a wide range of applications in food and medicine.

Most of the tomato seed oil sold on the market is transparent and light yellow, because most of them have been through white soil decolorization and high temperature vacuum deodorization and other oil refining treatment, and the appearance of the vast majority of refined vegetable oils is difficult to distinguish between true and false, which oil-soluble vitamins and lycopene are also removed along with other substances in the refining. Even real tomato seed oil is roughly equivalent to other vegetable oils.

Quality standards for tomato seed oil:

1, tomato seed oil must be made from tomato seed as raw materials, shall not add any other fats and food additives.

2, all health indicators to meet the national edible vegetable oil health standards.

3, smell, taste: with significant tomato seed oil aroma and taste, no odor.

4, Color: deep orange.

5, Transparency: Clarification and transparency.

6, heating test: 280 degrees Celsius, oil color is not black

Production Process:

1. Screen about 50 kg of wet tomato seeds, and dry them to keep the water content below 10%.
2. Screening to remove impurities.
3. 10 kg of dry seeds after removal of impurities are crushed by a grinder so that the particle size is below 0.40 cubic millimeters.
4. 30% of the oil is released in the first pass, 50% of the oil is released in the second pass, and 30% of the oil is released in the third pass.

This process is a cold pressing method, which produces crude oil. During the refining process, the insoluble, soluble and soluble impurities in the crude oil are removed to obtain about 1.5 kg of essential oil.

The oil yield of tomato seeds is 14-16%. The oil contains about 53.6% of the fatty acids required by the human body and a large amount of vitamins. Blood lipids have a very good effect.