kokum butter | Garnicia Indica | how kokum butter is manufactured l #kokumbutter #Garniciaindica
7.8 هزار بار بازدید -
4 سال پیش
-
Kokum butterGarcinia Indica trees or
Kokum butter
Garcinia Indica trees or simply "Kokum" (pronounced: Ko-kam) trees as they are known locally have been growing for eons in the wild, in and around the western coast of Maharashtra & Goa in India. Cottage level low scale 'silviculture' based cultivation of Kokum is mainly confined to the hilly areas near this long scenic coast. Supply of Kokum fruits and as a consequence Kokum seeds is limited as nursery practices have not yet been systematically worked.
Kokum plantations, nurseries and farms are a rarity as a result. While limitations on quantities is a disadvantage for big businesses, the silver lining to all of this wild-grown produce is that Kokum trees which grow in the wild have not yet come into contact with chemical fertilizers and pesticides. This is one reason why Kokum butter is popular with small and medium sized formulators and exotic butter connoisseurs.
Process of extraction
Raw Kokum butter is a white coloured fat with a creamish yellow or at times even a slightly grey tint which is extracted by traditional rural/cottage industry sized oil mills. Kokum seeds are gathered from natural forest habitats. These seeds are decorticated by wooden mallets. The final product is obtained by crushing the kernels, boiling the pulp in water and skimming off the fat from the top or churning the crushed pulp with water. The idea here is to physically separate oil from water as these two liquids are immiscible. It's a time consuming process and the yield in this case is only about 25% of raw Kokum butter. Therefore the production cost of raw Kokum butter remains high.
Raw Kokum butter suits those formulators who want to remain honest while marketing their natural products and their customers who appreciate the use of genuine and honest ingredients (natural smell, colour, properties) in the products they use!
Process timeline:
Start
01. Kokum seeds are gathered from various wild sources!
03. Kokum seeds are cleaned in order to remove dust, dirt and foreign matter.
04. These seeds are dried in the sun to remove excess moisture.
05. Dry seeds are then hulled to expose kernels and shells.
06. These go through a process of winnowing to retain kernels where as seed shells are discarded.
07. Clean Kokum kernels are boiled using a steam boiler.
08. These kernels are then sent to the oil-press to obtain Kokum oil
09. Crude Kokum oil is heated to remove traces of moisture
10. This hot Kokum oil is physically filtered twice to remove scum, floating debris and heavier impurities.
11. Pure oil obtained after double filtration is cooled to create Kokum butter slabs and cubes of varying sizes and weights! These cubes and slabs are packed in corrugated boxes
End
Our "natural" Kokum butter!
We are extremely proud to be one of the very few firms working with rural cooperatives in Sindhudurg, Maharashtra, India to encourage and promote production of 100% natural raw Kokum butter extracted solely using physical extraction methods. We reiterate, our products are extracted without the use of solvents!
These methods had been the mainstay of the rural Indian oil extraction industry for decades until recently when market pressure to produce chemically refined butters pushed them to the precipice of extinction.
Traditional vs Chemical process
The easiest and the most popular way of extracting this oil is by refining the Kokum kernels using chemical processes of neutralization, bleaching and deodorization. Up to 44% Butter can be extracted from kernels using chemical solvents making it cheaper for industrial use (bath & beauty industry). Since extraction of Kokum oil in this way is a chemical process, Kokum butter prepared from this oil no matter how well refined it is, ceases to be a 100% natural product. Moreover, when such chemically processed Kokum butter is used in cosmetics, soaps and even edibles, the end product isn't 100% natural either! Growing demands of bleaching and deodorization coupled with a constant pressure to produce more at cheap prices have pushed most oil extractors into harnessing quick and easy chemical extraction methods.
thanks for watching
please subscribe my YouTube channel
please share this video
please hit like and do comment
keep supporting
thank you
Garcinia Indica trees or simply "Kokum" (pronounced: Ko-kam) trees as they are known locally have been growing for eons in the wild, in and around the western coast of Maharashtra & Goa in India. Cottage level low scale 'silviculture' based cultivation of Kokum is mainly confined to the hilly areas near this long scenic coast. Supply of Kokum fruits and as a consequence Kokum seeds is limited as nursery practices have not yet been systematically worked.
Kokum plantations, nurseries and farms are a rarity as a result. While limitations on quantities is a disadvantage for big businesses, the silver lining to all of this wild-grown produce is that Kokum trees which grow in the wild have not yet come into contact with chemical fertilizers and pesticides. This is one reason why Kokum butter is popular with small and medium sized formulators and exotic butter connoisseurs.
Process of extraction
Raw Kokum butter is a white coloured fat with a creamish yellow or at times even a slightly grey tint which is extracted by traditional rural/cottage industry sized oil mills. Kokum seeds are gathered from natural forest habitats. These seeds are decorticated by wooden mallets. The final product is obtained by crushing the kernels, boiling the pulp in water and skimming off the fat from the top or churning the crushed pulp with water. The idea here is to physically separate oil from water as these two liquids are immiscible. It's a time consuming process and the yield in this case is only about 25% of raw Kokum butter. Therefore the production cost of raw Kokum butter remains high.
Raw Kokum butter suits those formulators who want to remain honest while marketing their natural products and their customers who appreciate the use of genuine and honest ingredients (natural smell, colour, properties) in the products they use!
Process timeline:
Start
01. Kokum seeds are gathered from various wild sources!
03. Kokum seeds are cleaned in order to remove dust, dirt and foreign matter.
04. These seeds are dried in the sun to remove excess moisture.
05. Dry seeds are then hulled to expose kernels and shells.
06. These go through a process of winnowing to retain kernels where as seed shells are discarded.
07. Clean Kokum kernels are boiled using a steam boiler.
08. These kernels are then sent to the oil-press to obtain Kokum oil
09. Crude Kokum oil is heated to remove traces of moisture
10. This hot Kokum oil is physically filtered twice to remove scum, floating debris and heavier impurities.
11. Pure oil obtained after double filtration is cooled to create Kokum butter slabs and cubes of varying sizes and weights! These cubes and slabs are packed in corrugated boxes
End
Our "natural" Kokum butter!
We are extremely proud to be one of the very few firms working with rural cooperatives in Sindhudurg, Maharashtra, India to encourage and promote production of 100% natural raw Kokum butter extracted solely using physical extraction methods. We reiterate, our products are extracted without the use of solvents!
These methods had been the mainstay of the rural Indian oil extraction industry for decades until recently when market pressure to produce chemically refined butters pushed them to the precipice of extinction.
Traditional vs Chemical process
The easiest and the most popular way of extracting this oil is by refining the Kokum kernels using chemical processes of neutralization, bleaching and deodorization. Up to 44% Butter can be extracted from kernels using chemical solvents making it cheaper for industrial use (bath & beauty industry). Since extraction of Kokum oil in this way is a chemical process, Kokum butter prepared from this oil no matter how well refined it is, ceases to be a 100% natural product. Moreover, when such chemically processed Kokum butter is used in cosmetics, soaps and even edibles, the end product isn't 100% natural either! Growing demands of bleaching and deodorization coupled with a constant pressure to produce more at cheap prices have pushed most oil extractors into harnessing quick and easy chemical extraction methods.
thanks for watching
please subscribe my YouTube channel
please share this video
please hit like and do comment
keep supporting
thank you
4 سال پیش
در تاریخ 1399/04/02 منتشر شده
است.
7,874
بـار بازدید شده