How much soy bean does it take to make a gallon of oil?!
How much soy bean does it take to make a gallon of oil?
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Alright I found no information for this..and was sort of miffed I couldn't haha.. so I got a little neurotic and did some math of my own.
There's about 200 soybeans to a cup on average( yes I figured this out physically ..><)
16 cups to a gallon. Granted this is liquid volume now so lets say theres 10% space lost do to the randomness of the soybeans size and dimensions. So lets use 220 beans as a guide. 3,520 beans to a gallon.
Soybeans are 20% oil on average.
So you'd need 5 times more beans if you wanted a full gallon.
So roughly 18,000 soybeans to make a gallon of soy oil. wow!
This is rough and isn't equating in the entire part of the soy pod and unprocessed beans.. but I think its fairly accurate - please let me know if you find out otherwise I'm really curious still! :)
Source(s):
personal experience and research (really this time haha..)
How many soy beans does it take to make a single gallon of vegetable oil? as many as it needs ta don don yeah.
WOW! I just spent about an hour trying to find a direct answer to this and struck out. The closest I got is that a bushel of soybeans produces 11 pounds of oil (for soybeans a bushel is defined as 60 pounds). I figured no big whoop to find out how many pounds a gallon of soybean oil weighs-wrong
I'll see If I can get a closer estimate (somebody HAS to have that data
BTW; you also get 48 pounds of soymeal per bushel as a by-product of pressing the beans for oil and one pound of water is 'lost' in the process.