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title: "Who introduced refined oil?"  
description: "A brief explanation about the history of refined oil and its interesting facts"  
author: "Anjita D."  
published: 2023-10-09  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/2819/who-introduced-refined-oil  
category: "foods"  
tags: ["refined oil", "foods", "general knowledge", "facts"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Who introduced refined oil?

![Who introduced refined oil](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/27d4c007-5f33-4d7c-bce3-be425802d518/images/b2d057eb-9f26-48b0-abcd-1d5a1cd5ff10.jpeg) ![Who introduced refined oil](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/27d4c007-5f33-4d7c-bce3-be425802d518/images/bb07c3a9-d82f-46d6-a026-69551b6fab3f.jpeg) The Chinese geographer, writer, and statesman Li Daoyuan developed refined oil in the late Northern Wei Dynasty (512-518 AD). ![Who introduced refined oil](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/27d4c007-5f33-4d7c-bce3-be425802d518/images/bb07c3a9-d82f-46d6-a026-69551b6fab3f.jpeg) In his famous book Commentary on the Water Classic, he described the process of refining oil into various lubricants. ![Who introduced refined oil](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/27d4c007-5f33-4d7c-bce3-be425802d518/images/47c754f1-f2ae-4ab1-802e-87e9221d9daa.jpeg) It is created by eliminating contaminants from crude oil like free fatty acids & waxes using methods such as neutralisation, bleaching & deodorization ![Who introduced refined oil](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/27d4c007-5f33-4d7c-bce3-be425802d518/images/321ed1ea-5590-421d-a6f2-f354ed4cff2a.jpeg) With the invention of industrial-scale refining methods in the early twentieth century, refined oil became readily available. ![Who introduced refined oil](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/27d4c007-5f33-4d7c-bce3-be425802d518/images/d4e650d7-929a-41fa-8811-b0398597c4ae.jpeg) Hindustan Unilever introduced the first refined oil in India under the Dalda brand in 1937, which was a huge success and popularised the usage.

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