Peanut oil is not pure

CDC Foods News: "According to past life experience, pure peanut oil will freeze after cold weather, but recently bought peanut oil has not appeared this phenomenon, is it that more and more impure peanut oil now?" Citizen Zhao Aunt hit a few days ago Hotline consultation. Later, the reporter visited and found that due to high peanut prices, the introduction of relevant national standards and other reasons, peanut oil does become increasingly impure.

At present, the major brands of peanut oil in the supermarket are called "special fragrance", "pure" and "golden ratio". According to sales personnel, there are two kinds of peanut oil, one is pure peanut oil, only peanuts are included in the list of ingredients, and the price of 5-litre is about 150 yuan per barrel; the other is peanut oil, which is made of soybean oil, Rapeseed oil, peanut oil, etc. However, the reporter noticed that in many peanut blending oil products, peanut oil ranked behind in the list of ingredients. Taking a 5 litre peanut blending oil as an example, its main ingredients are soybean oil, rapeseed oil, peanut oil, and sesame oil in that order. Industry sources pointed out that according to the requirements of the national standard, the product label for producing edible oil products should indicate the name of the oil used as raw material from large to small, which means that this product is actually called soybean oil. Suitable.

An edible oil dealer disclosed that the “Planting of Edible Plants” national standard has not been issued after many years of solicitation of opinions, leaving some companies with opportunity to use it as an auxiliary, even if the proportion does not exceed 10% of the total amount of peanut oil products. The industry's "hidden rules." In fact, this is exaggerating propaganda and misleading consumption. In addition, one reason why peanut oil is increasingly impure is that peanuts prices have remained high since last year because of the reduction in peanut acreage and the lack of peanuts due to weather conditions. Some companies have therefore added other cheap oils to peanut oil. in.

So, what methods can identify authentic peanut oil? Insiders pointed out that you can use the frozen method to identify. Due to the characteristics of peanut oil, pure peanut oil will appear flocculation, semi-solidification or even complete solidification in the environment below 12°C. Just put the refrigerator freezer to minus 10°C, and put the oil in about 10 minutes, pure peanut oil. Half of it began to flocculate. Peanut oil mixed with a lot of soybean oil almost only slightly solidified at the bottom.