Soybean Oil
Soybean oil is a vegetable oil which is extracted from the seeds of the soybean. It has the highest popularity when it comes to cooking oils. It is also known as a drying oil, and can be used as a base for printing inks and oil paints. To produce soybean oil, the soybeans are cracked, adjusted for moisture content, heated between 60 and 88 °C rolled into flakes, and solvent-extracted with hexanes. Then it goes through a complex process of refinement, which is blended for different applications, and sometimes hydrogenated. They are sold as vegetable oils and are a chief ingredient in a wide variety of processed foods. Most of the remaining residue after the extraction process is used as animal feed.