Patent ID: 6994875

Claim:
Process for obtaining a furan lipid-rich unsaponifiable material from avocado, comprising: (I) controlling dehydration of fresh avocados or of avocados that have undergone a preliminary transformation, wherein the dehydration is performed at a temperature of between −50° C. and 75° C., (II) extracting oil from dehydrated fruit, (III) alternatively, a. heat treating the extracted oil at a temperature from 80 to 150° C., and then concentrating the unsaponifiable fraction of the oil, or b. concentrating the unsaponifiable fraction of the oil, followed by heat treating at a temperature from 80 to 150° C., followed by (IV) saponificating and extracting of the unsaponifiable material wherein the concentrating of (III)a or (III)b is molecular distillation at a temperature of between 180 and 260° C. or cold crystalization.