Product Code Database
Corn oil (North American) or maize oil (British) is oil extracted from the cereal germ of corn (maize). Its main use is in cooking, where its high smoke point makes refined corn oil a valuable frying oil. It is also a key ingredient in some . Corn oil is generally less expensive than most other types of .
Corn oil is also a feedstock used for biodiesel. Other industrial uses for corn oil include soap, salve, paint, erasers, rustproofing for metal surfaces, , , nitroglycerin, and . It is sometimes used as a carrier for drug molecules in pharmaceutical preparations. Due to its low cost, corn oil is also one of the most popular choices for use in egg addling, an avian population control method in which a bird's egg is coated with oil to prevent the embryo from receiving oxygen.
| 1 | 1,707,600 | |||
| 2 | 483,700 | |||
| 3 | 145,548 | |||
| 4 | 83,700 | |||
| 5 | 82,503 | |||
| 6 | 69,300 | |||
| 7 | 67,900 | |||
| 8 | 64,700 | |||
| 9 | 62,300 | |||
| 10 | 53,000 | |||
| Source : FAOSTAT | ||||
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