The cost of the corn oil was £10·50 and it is now £24.
One week, it was corn oil, so everyone bought that; the following week, the corn oil was gone, but there were toilet rolls—that was a good week.
Its main use is in cooking, where its high smoke point makes refined corn oil a valuable frying oil.
The residue from every stage is used in animal feed and to make corn oil or other applications.
Other industrial uses for corn oil include soap, salve, paint, rustproofing for metal surfaces, inks, textiles, nitroglycerin, and insecticides.
Corn oil is also a feedstock used for biodiesel.
For example, one study on cholesterol-lowering drugs used olive oil and corn oil in the placebo pills.
One bushel of corn contains 1.55 pounds of corn oil (2.8% by weight).
