Oil fruit

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As oil crops in the agricultural sense, all harvested products are oil plants with economic importance to plant oil designated recovery, so both oilseeds and oil supplying fruits and other plant parts. The end product is used both as edible oil and as fuel for internal combustion engines. The oil is used either directly, such as rapeseed oil , or in esterified form, such as rapeseed methyl ester .

Oil fruits grown in Germany are, for example, rapeseed , sunflowers , poppy seeds, flax, hemp, rapeseed , flax , pumpkins and mustard . In other European countries, especially in the Mediterranean area, olives are also grown for this purpose , in other parts of the world peanuts , palms and grapes are also grown . Non-European oil fruits are "oil palm, coconut palm, castor, peanut, soybean, almond tree and others."

All oils that are made from different plants or parts of plants contain fatty acids such as the monounsaturated fatty acid oleic acid .

Plant, oil fruit, derivative, most common use

Oil plant	Oil fruit	Primary derivative	Secondary derivative	most frequent use
Rapeseed	Rapeseed (black; seeds )	Rapeseed oil	Biodiesel ( rapeseed methyl ester )	Cooking oil , fuel
Sunflower	Sunflower seeds ( seeds )	Sunflower oil		Cooking oil
Flax	linseed	linseed oil		Food , medicinal products , paints , anti-corrosion products and paints
mustard	Mustard seeds ( seeds of the mustard plant)	Mustard oil		Food mustard
Olives	Pulp / olive pits	olive oil	Biodiesel	Cooking oil , whole fruit
peanut	Peanut seeds	peanut oil		Edible oil , whole fruit, peanut butter
Palm trees	Pulp and seeds of the oil palm	Palm oil / palm kernel oil	Biodiesel	Cooking oil , fuel
grapes	Grape seeds	Grapeseed oil		Cooking oil , whole fruit, juice ,
Pumpkins	Pumpkin seeds	Pumpkin seed oil		Cooking oil
soy	Soybeans	Soybean oil	Biodiesel ( soy methyl ester )	Cooking oil , fuel
Coconut palm	coconuts	Coconut oil		Edible oil , edible fat (e.g. palmin )
Avocado tree	Avocados	Avocado oil		Cooking oil

For the chemical composition of vegetable oils, see vegetable oils # Composition .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Schwachulla, Wolfram., FA Brockhaus Verlag Leipzig .: The Brockhaus in one volume. 8th, completely revised and updated edition Brockhaus, Leipzig 1998, ISBN 3-7653-1678-4 , p. 659 .