Abstract:
The safety of corn oil can be improved by removing zearalenone (ZEN) from crude corn oil by alkali refining process. The effects of alkali mass fraction, excess alkali dosage and initial temperature of alkali refining on ZEN removal rate were investigated by single factor test with crude corn oil as raw material.On the basis of single factor experiments, the response surface Box-Behnken analysis method was adopted, which used ZEN removal rate as response value, to optimize the alkali refining process. The results showed that when the alkali mass fraction was 6.53%, the excess alkali content was 0.22%, and the initial temperature of alkali refining was 39 ℃, the removal rate of ZEN was (99.15±0.08)%. This optimized process could effectively remove ZEN from crude corn oil.