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Moisture - AOCS Palm Oil

The document outlines the AOCS official method for determining the moisture and volatile matter content in commercial fats and oils through drying samples in an air oven at 130°C until the weight loss is less than 0.05% over 30 minute periods, with the moisture and volatile matter content calculated as the percentage loss in mass from the original sample weight. Applicable to animal and vegetable fats but not drying or semidrying oils, the method involves thoroughly mixing samples, weighing 5g portions into pre-dried aluminum dishes, and drying and weighing samples repeatedly until weight stability is reached.

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Moisture - AOCS Palm Oil

The document outlines the AOCS official method for determining the moisture and volatile matter content in commercial fats and oils through drying samples in an air oven at 130°C until the weight loss is less than 0.05% over 30 minute periods, with the moisture and volatile matter content calculated as the percentage loss in mass from the original sample weight. Applicable to animal and vegetable fats but not drying or semidrying oils, the method involves thoroughly mixing samples, weighing 5g portions into pre-dried aluminum dishes, and drying and weighing samples repeatedly until weight stability is reached.

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SAMPLING AND ANALYSIS OF COMMERCIAL FATS AND OILS

AOCS Official Method Ca 2c-25


Reapproved 1997

Moisture and Volatile Matter


Air Oven Method
DEFINITION
This method determines the moisture and any other material volatile under the conditions of the test.
SCOPE
Applicable to animal and vegetable fats, but not to drying or semidrying oils or oils of the coconut
group. It is not applicable to fats containing added monoglycerides.

APPARATUS 2. Place in air oven and dry for 30 min at 130 ± 1°C.
1. Air oven—AOCS Specification H 3-45. Remove from the oven, cool to room temperature in a
2. A l u m i num moisture dishes—minimum 30 ga u ge, desiccator and weigh.
approximately 50 × 20 mm, with tight-fitting slip-over 3. Repeat Procedure, 2 until the loss in weight does not
covers; Sargent–Welch (20 mL WLS 25725-B, 50 mL exceed 0.05% per 30-min drying period.
WLS 25725-D), or equivalent (see Notes, 1).
3. Desiccator—containing an efficient desiccant. Calcium CALCULATIONS
chloride is not satisfactory. See AOCS Specification H 9-87. 1. Moisture and volatile matter, % =
PREPARATION OF SAMPLE loss in mass, g
1. Because water tends to settle in samples that have soft- × 100
mass of sample, g
ened or melted, care must be taken to mix samples thor-
oughly so as to distribute the water uniformly. Soften
with gentle heat (do not melt) and mix thoroughly with NOTES
an efficient mixer. 1. For samples with high moisture and volatile content,
the use of lightweight, coverless, disposable weighing
PROCEDURE dishes is not permitted. Erroneously high results may
1. Weigh accurately 5 g of sample into a tared moisture dish be obtained due to oil loss from splattering during
that has been dried and cooled previously in a desiccator. heating.

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