| Raw materials
The main raw materials are given in the three groups below, together
with the two letter code:
| Non-Laurics |
Laurics |
Animal |
| Soybean oil |
(BO) |
| Rapeseed oil |
(RP) |
| Palmoil |
(PO) |
| Sunflower oil |
(SF) |
| Cottonseed oil |
(CS) |
| Corn or maize oil |
(MZ) |
| Groundnut |
(AR) |
| Rice bran |
(RI) |
| Cocoa butter |
(CB) |
|
| Palm kernel |
(PK) |
| Coconut oil |
(CN) |
| Babassu |
(BS) |
|
| Butter |
(BU) |
| Lard |
(LA) |
| Tallow |
(ET) |
|
Before these oils and fats can be used for application in foods,
the crude materials have to be refined and usually also modified
and possibly blended in order to get the right properties of the
fat for a certain application.
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