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Sesame oil is an edible oil derived from sesame seeds. Besides being used as cooking oil in south India, it is often used as a flavor enhancer in East Asia, Middle Eastern, and southeast Asian cuisine . It has a distinctive nutty aroma and taste.
The oil from the nutrient-rich seed is popular in alternative medicine, from traditional massages and treatments to the modern day.
The oil is popular in Asia and is also one of the earliest-known crop-based oils, but world-wide mass modern production continues to be limited even today due to the inefficient manual harvesting process required to extract the oil.
Pressing and solvent extraction method are commonly used. Pressing and solvent extraction method is to apply some pressure by sesame seeds, and oil is squeezed out from the oil structure or the use of an organic solvent to extract the oil. Sesame process is cleaning, rinsing, cooking, Jan smoke, grinding, pressing, oil shocks, filtration, precipitation, refined oil products. Both methods have the advantage of oil yield is high, the process is simple, low labor intensity, environmental sanitation, high degree of automation.
