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Career Guidance Knowledge engineering, manufacturing and construction K072 - manufacturing and processing K0721 - food processing Origin of dietary fats and oils
Description
The distinction between dietary fats that come from animals and oils derived from vegetables.
Know animal fats, including butter, ghee, lard, tallow, and any other fatty substance rendered from animal flesh. Know vegetable fats and oils, including those from soy, canola, corn, cottonseed, sunflower, safflower, peanut.
Occupations requiring this skill
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Skill demand overview
- Essential in 3 occupations
- Optional in 6 occupations
- Total: 9 occupations
- Most common in: ISCO major group 8 (Plant and machine operators, and assemblers)
Essential for
- Blending plant operatorBlending plant operators control equipment to weigh and mix vegetable oils used in products such as salad oil and margarines. They tend pump oils to perform the blending according……
- Oil mill operatorOil mill operators tend mills to extract oil from oilseed following an artisanal techniques. Includes people using artisanal oils.Excludes people using electrical equipment, chemic…
- Fat-purification workerFat-purification workers operate acidulation tanks and equipment that help with the separation of undesirable components from oils. Other titles The following job titles also refer…
Optional for
- Hydrogenation machine operatorHydrogenation machine operators control equipment to process base oils for manufacture of margarine and shortening products. Other titles The following job titles also refer to hyd…
- Industrial cookIndustrial cooks create new food designs and recipes. They prepare, measure and mix ingredients to prepare foodstuff products. They control and regulate temperatures, monitor cooki…
- Centrifuge operatorCentrifuge operators tend centrifugal machines that separate impurities from food materials aimed to be further processed as to achieve finished foodstuffs. Other titles The follow…
- Oilseed presserOilseed pressers operate hydraulic presses that extracts oil from oilseed. Includes people working in olive oil, soya seeds, sunflower oil and vegetable oil industries.Includes peo…
- ChocolatierChocolatiers make confectionery products with chocolate. They perform activities such as examination, feeling, and tasting of ground chocolate paste. Such analysis leads them to as…
- ClarifierClarifiers operate equipment to remove sediments and moisture from oleo and oils. They heat clarifying tank with steam and strainers for the clarification process. They remove fore…
Related skills
- Apply requirements concerning manufacturing of food and beverages
- Apply GMP
- Apply HACCP
- Ensure compliance with environmental legislation in food production
- Dispose food waste
- Label samples
- Pump products
- Liaise with managers
- Exert quality control to processing food
- Follow hygienic procedures during food processing
- Liaise with colleagues
- Be at ease in unsafe environments
Last updated on February 18, 2026
