Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery was recently able to chat with United Soybean Board consultants Jean Heggie and Pam Smith, RDN, Shaping America's Plate, about soy ingredients for baking and frying, as well as the versatility of soybean oil.

ABA recently released an infographic about the demand for soybean oil and vegetable oils. The demand has currently exceeded the supply, causing prices to rapidly increase.  

A method for producing a high viscosity, low volatiles blown stripped oil blend is provided. The method may include the steps of: (i) obtaining an oil blend of corn stillage oil and soybean oil having a weight ratio of corn stillage oil to soybean oil of from about 1:2 to 3:1; (ii) heating the oil blend to at least 90° C.; (iii) passing air through the heated oil blend to produce a blown oil having a viscosity of at least 50 cSt at 40° C.; and (iv) stripping the blown oil from step (iii) to reduce an acid value of the blown oil to less than 5.0 mg KOH/gram.

Imports - Soybean Oil & Its Fractions, Refined Or Not in Mexico increased to 14174 USD THO in March from 10621 USD THO in February of 2020. Imports - Soybean Oil & Its Fractions, Refined Or in Mexico averaged 14638.38 USD THO from 2014 until 2020, reaching an all time high of 27162 USD THO in January of 2017 and a record low of 5272 USD THO in September of 2018. This page includes a chart with historical data for Mexico Imports of Soybean Oil & Its Fractions, Refined O.