Comment by latable
1 hour ago
Wrong about olive oil that never need hexane extraction. Hexane is used to do a second extraction of the residues from the first extraction, to increase the yield. Of course it is somewhat poisonous. It is done for most cheap olive oil ! When buying olive oil, you have to make sure it is extracted mechanically and not chemically, in France at least it is written as such.
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