Make · Processing & extraction

Winterization

In a sentence. Chilling a crude extract to remove waxes, fats and lipids.

After extraction the oil is mixed with cold ethanol and filtered to drop out plant waxes, clarifying the product. It is a refining step on the way to distillate and isolate.

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