Oil plant
Oil plants are plants that are used to produce vegetable oil and fats . They can be divided into two main groups:
- Oil plants that provide fruits with fatty pulp , from which the fat is extracted by pressing. Well-known examples are olive tree , avocado and oil palm .
- Oil plants that provide fatty seeds from which the fat is removed by pressing and extraction . Well-known examples are sesame , flax , rapeseed , hemp , soy and sunflower .
In contrast to this, in the agricultural sense, all harvested products of cultivated plants with economic importance for the production of vegetable oil are referred to as oil crops , i.e. both oil seeds and oil-supplying fruit and other plant parts.
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