shea nut oil pure refined machine in uganda
- Machine Type: vegetable seed oil refined machine
- Production Capacity: 0.5~10T/24h
- Weight (T): 800 T
- Motor Power: 0,37 kW
- Oil Advantage: Environmentally Friendly
- Machine Time range: 0-999 Sec
- Raw Material: vegetable seed
- Market: uganda
How shea butter is made: A complete guide to shea nut
Where is shea butter made here, you ask? The Sissili and Ziro provinces are the most important production centres. Further, shea nuts are the country’s third most important export after cotton and livestock. Since both shea nuts and shea butter are exported in huge quantities from Burkina Faso, their quality is extremely important.
The main Shea nut producing countries are Nigeria, Ghana and Burkina Faso. The first process typically involved in the processing of Shea nut butter is the wild collection of the Shea nuts. After being picked, the green peel is removed from the Shea nuts. The nuts are then sun dried, washed and ground.
Government Eyes Shea Nuts to Boost Vegetable Oil Production
Rtd. Maj. Fred Bwino Kyakulaga, the Minister of State for Agriculture says incorporating shea nuts, as one of the oil seeds, is a great strategy for addressing the shortage of vegetable oil in the country. Uganda’s national oil seed project only targets five oil seeds; groundnuts, sim sim, soybeans, sunflowers, and oil palm.
The Shea tree grows wild in Eastern and Western African countries such as Senegal, Burkino Faso and Uganda, where it takes over 20 years for the Shea tree to start bearing nuts. They can tolerate the hot, dry conditions, and need little water to survive, so are perfectly suited to this environment.
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The fruits have traditionally been eaten while the dried kernel seeds are locally processed to produce vegetable oil and cake. Shea nut oil has a range of uses including: medicinal oil for treatment of skin and throat infections, cosmetics, cooking fat, and residual cake used as a livestock feed, wax, lubricant (machines and bicycles) and for
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Shea butter is a high-value shea nut fat used as an edible oil, antimicrobial and moisturiser in the food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries, respectively.
This Is How Shea Butter Is Made from Shea Nuts
Shea nuts are the nuts of the Shea tree that produce Shea butter. If you care for your skin and hair you might be acquainted with the goodness of Shea butter. It is the fatty extracted from Shea nut. Due to its wonderful good impacts on skin and hair people often consider this butter as ‘’woman’s gold”. However, in the passage attached below, we mention some steps that will help you
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- How are shea nuts processed?
- Shea nuts are first cleaned, washed, and dried before being cold pressed in a factory using a mechanical oil screw press. Our Oil Mill, which is ISO-9001 certified, has been processing shea nuts and other oil seeds in Northern Uganda for over fifteen years.
- What is a Uganda shea nut?
- Uganda shea nut (Vitellaria paradoxa), goes under various names including the chi tree. With an origin in West Africa, perhaps Ghana, where domestication history runs a millennium back, the tree is readily available in the rainforests of Uganda. The country grows the main East African variety, nilotica or shea butter.
- What is Ugandan Nilotica Shea Butter?
- Ugandan Nilotica Shea Butter is of the highest quality and is produced in a socially responsible manner. The process begins with cleaning, washing, and drying shea nuts before they are cold pressed in a factory using a mechanical oil screw press.
- Where does Shea Butter come from?
- Shea Butter comes from the nilotica species found only in the savannahs of Northern Uganda and Southern Sudan. The majority of shea butters on the market are harvested from the paradoxa species found on the dry savannah belt of West and Central Africa.
- Does East African shea butter clog pores?
- East African Shea Butter (Vitellaria nilotica) is non-comedogenic and does not clog pores as it absorbs quickly into the skin. It has anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antiseptic and skin healing properties, and nourishes skin and hair with Vitamins A, E and F.
- Are all Shea Butters identical?
- Not all Shea Butters are the same. There are two main varieties: West African shea (Vitellaria paradoxa) and East African shea (Vitellaria nilotica). The majority of shea butters on the market are harvested from the paradoxa species, which grows in the dry savannah belt of West and Central Africa.