Food use of soybean oil

Soybean oil is a vegetable oil dominating today s food oil market. About 80% of the soybean oil produced each year is used for human food another 6% is used for animal feed, while the ranainder (14%) serves non-food uses (soaps, fatty adds, lubricants, coatings, etc.)(Valverde et al, 2008). Another increasingly important non-food use of soybean oil is biodiesel production (in 2007 about 80% of the vegetable oil used to produce biodiesel was soybean oil in the United States). 

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