The invention concerns plant wax extracts and a method for extracting wax from plants, such as agricultural biowaste and in particular from cereal straw, including a first dry mechanical treatment step to separate a wax enriched fraction from a straw fraction low in wax and a second wet step including enzymatic treatment of the wax enriched fraction.

The present invention concerns a method of extracting and refining wax from plant material. Briefly, the method comprises the steps of (a) providing plant by material comprising cuticular wax, (b) disassociating cuticular wax from the plant material, thereby obtaining a sample comprising plant derived cuticular wax and dewaxed plant material in an aqueous suspension, (c) solubilizing the plant derived cuticular wax by increasing the temperature of the sample, (d) separating the suspension into a solid fraction and a liquid fraction comprising melted plant derived cuticular wax, (e) mixing the liquid fraction with a capturing agent, wherein the capturing agent has a boiling point above 85° C. at ambient pressure, (f) separating the mixture into an aqueous fraction and a capture fraction comprising capturing agent and plant derived cuticular wax, (g) recovering the plant derived cuticular wax from the capture fraction.

The present invention concerns a method of extracting and refining wax from plant material. Briefly, the method comprises the steps of (a) providing plant by material comprising cuticular wax, (b) disassociating cuticular wax from the plant material, thereby obtaining a sample comprising plant derived cuticular wax and dewaxed plant material in an aqueous suspension, (c) solubilizing the plant derived cuticular wax by increasing the temperature of the sample, (d) separating the suspension into a solid fraction and a liquid fraction comprising melted plant derived cuticular wax, (e) mixing the liquid fraction with a capturing agent, wherein the capturing agent has a boiling point above 85° C. at ambient pressure, (f) separating the mixture into an aqueous fraction and a capture fraction comprising capturing agent and plant derived cuticular wax, (g) recovering the plant derived cuticular wax from the capture fraction.

The invention concerns plant wax extracts and a method for extracting wax from plants, such as agricultural biowaste and in particular from cereal straw, including a first dry mechanical treatment step to separate a wax enriched fraction from a straw fraction low in wax and a second wet step including enzymatic treatment of the wax enriched fraction.

The invention concerns plant wax extracts and a method for extracting wax from plants, such as agricultural biowaste and in particular from cereal straw, including a first dry mechanical treatment step to separate a wax enriched fraction from a straw fraction low in wax and a second wet step including enzymatic treatment of the wax enriched fraction.

In the method for decolorizing a vegetable wax, a vegetable wax raw material dissolved in an organic solvent is contacted under pressure with a nanofiltration membrane having a higher rejection for a pigment, contained in the vegetable wax raw material, than for the wax components, providing a permeate containing decolorized wax and enriching the pigment in the retentate.

In the method for decolorizing a vegetable wax, a vegetable wax raw material dissolved in an organic solvent is contacted under pressure with a nanofiltration membrane having a higher rejection for a pigment, contained in the vegetable wax raw material, than for the wax components, providing a permeate containing decolorized wax and enriching the pigment in the retentate.

A method for manufacturing a functional material that contains plasmalogen, the method including treating an animal tissue containing plasmalogen with protease, and extracting the animal tissue treated with protease with an extraction liquid containing ethanol.

The present invention relates to a confectionery comprising a core and an outer surface bounding the core, wherein at least part of the outer surface of the core is coated with a coating agent, characterized in that the coating agent comprises apple wax. The invention further relates to a process for producing a confectionery, to the confectionery obtainable by this process, and to the use of apple wax.

A method and an plant for separating wax from a dried wax coated plant material, comprising mechanically processing the plant material in a dry process by using an apparatus adapted for deforming at least the outer surface of the plant material, so that the wax coating is cracked and released from the remaining, partly de-waxed, plant material; separating the plant material in a separator into a portion A comprising plant material with a relatively high content of cracked and released wax coating and a relatively low content of the remaining, partly de-waxed, plant material, and a portion B comprising respectively a relatively low content cracked and released wax coating and a relatively high content of the remaining, partly de-waxed, plant material; liquefying the wax contained in portion A, and separating the liquefied wax from the remaining, partly de-waxed, plant material in portion A.