Perhaps one of the most-consumed cooking oils, soybean oil is common in everything from paints to insect repellents. The extraction of soybean oil from the cracked soybeans takes place in low heat, with the left over residue ground up into soybean meal for animal feed. On average, around 30-33 million tons of soybean oil is produced annually worldwide. The Chicago Board of Trade has soybean oil contracts that trade at 60,000 lbs at a time.
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