Oils have become an increasingly important by-product of the citrus processing industry. At the high prices reached last year and with good rates of recovery, one could get a dollar’s worth of oil out of a box of Valencia oranges, as shown in Table 1. No other commercially produced by-product of citrus processing comes close to these figures.
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