Oil From Nuts (1940-1949)

A British Instructional Film. Nigeria, Africa.
Graphic maps show the location of Southern Nigeria. Man chopping Palm Kernel from top of tree. The outside is hacked off and the kernels spread on the ground. Ground nuts in Northern Nigeria. Men carrying sacks on their heads. Truck carrying sacks, freight train. Lagos - docks. Raw materials processed in Liverpool. Top shots of the docks. Winch in operation lifting cargo. Men at work on docks. Sacks being unloaded. Baskets of loose goods emptied into chutes. Factories and warehouses. Nuts loaded into warehouse by an "elevator". Storage silos with nuts pouring in. Mechanical carriers, buckets containing nuts. Cargo is inspected to remove any rubbish. Light objects are trapped by a screen. Metal objects are trapped by magnets.
C/U of objects found in cargoes that magnet has trapped. Nuts pass over rollers which break them down. Slow motion shot of the rollers in action. Broken pieces are passed through many rollers until become a fine meal. Meal is steam cooked in giant "kettles". Hydraulic presses are used to extract oil. Meal is pressed into cakes between two Hessian mats in a large press. They are placed in shelves which are in the press. When squeezed together the oil runs free. The cakes are taken out of the press and the edges are trimmed. Another method of extracting the oil is shown: expellers. This is more modern method. One machine can do all the work. Worm screw presses the meal into a slotted cylinder. Oil cake which remains is taken to another section of factory for further processing. Tanker is filled with oil by a long pipe from the factory. Vegetable oils being used as lubricants for machinery.
A woman doing washing at her kitchen sink using soap produced from vegetable oil. Margarine being spread on a piece of bread.
FILM ID:1675.02
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[@jeffc8242]

This video is nuts😃

[@saychunjo2153]

You sounded nuts as well!

[@weerobot]

Cool History...

[@tilasole3252]

Mediterranean diet uses a lot of oil. Healthy oil like olive oil, but oil none the less. The British people were the healthiest they had ever been during the rationing phase. And they were rationed margarine, because butter and animal fats were heavily restricted. So unless ingredients changed over time, something is not adding up. Dairy producers have always been against margarine and it has nothing to do with people's health. Otherwise they would stop selling dairy products to consume. Something "healthier" doesn't make it healthy.

[@baivulcho]

Ingredients in margarine did change over time, and they did drastically. Originally margarine was made from a combination of animal fat, vegetable fat and water(all found in nature and present to different extent in the diet). But over time, exactly during the war and the rationing in US and UK, they switched to hydrogenated vegetable oils - which are chemically modified fats, basically nonexistent in nature. And around this time the consumption of margarine exploded. So for the past 70 years people have been consuming huge amounts of fats that their body cannot metabolize, no wonder this has it's effect over time.

[@sarahlouise7163]

dairy is healthy

[@tilasole3252]

@@sarahlouise7163 not as healthy as other things, as it comes with negatives.