Coconut Oil Preparation Good matured, fresh, whole, organic coconuts are shelled & pared to remove the outer shell & brown skin. The white meat is then milled / grounded to fine granules & dried at an average of 2 hour & 30 minutes at a temperature of about 104
- 113 Fahrenheit (40
- 45 Celsius). Extraction After drying, the white meat is made to pass through a customised cold process expeller where the oil is extracted from the white meat at a controlled temperature of 104
- 113 degrees Fahrenheit. The solid residue is sacked & sold as feed component or is further processed using a pulverizing machine to produce Coconut Flour passing through a fine mesh sieve – & is used for baking as a substitute to wheat flour (recommendation
- Use 15-25% in place of other flours) The oil is collected in a receiving pan & pumped through a centrifuge, to remove the moisture, & then a filter press (series of filter clothes) which results in a water clear coconut oil
- known commercially as VIRGIN COCONUT OIL. The filtered virgin oil is temporarily stored in a day tank & made to pass through a polishing filter (micro filter) before it is eventually packed in drums. Lucy Bee then imports the drums into Europe for bottling at our Manchester Grade A BRC plant.