How To Extract Cocoa Butter With Oil Press Machinery

How to Extract Cocoa Butter with Oil Press Machinery

Cocoa butter is a natural vegetable edible oil extracted from cocoa beans during the process of making chocolate and cocoa powder.

It accounts for 50-57% of the weight of cocoa beans and gives chocolate its unique melt-in-the-mouth taste.

The following are the steps to extract cocoa butter:

Pre-treatment: harvesting /cleaning/destoning/roasting/screeningAfter harvesting, cocoa beans need to be cleaned to remove impurities, roasted, and adjusted for moisture, and finally screened to select high-quality cocoa beans.

Grinding and pressing: pre-grinding/grinding/pressingGrinding is very important for the production of cocoa butter, so it is grind twice to turn the cocoa beans into cocoa liquid blocks, and then the cocoa liquid blocks are pressed to extract the oil.

Refining part: fully refiningRefining refers to dephosphorization, deacidification, dehydration, decolorization and deodorization. The oil products after these steps can be used in the cosmetics and chemical industries.