Cocoa Butter Extraction from Cocoa Nibs Using Supercritical Carbon Dioxide
Cocoa beans consist mainly of cocoa butter (50-55% w/w). High quality cocoa butter used in food, cosmetic and pharmaceutical products is obtained by mechanical press, expeller, and solvent extraction using hexane. Supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) using carbon dioxide as a solvent has provided...
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2009
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/5746/1/FSTM_2009_18_abstract.pdf |
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