Sal Butter

Shorea robusta is popularly known as the Sal tree in India. Sal is indigenous to India. An edible oil extracted from the seeds of Sal is known as Sal Butter.

Seed of the Sal fruit contains approximately 15% oil content. The extracted crude sal oil/fat is greenish-brown and has odor. It is solid at room temperature. Because of this, it is known as sal fat or sal butter.

Crude oil is refined using neutralization and bleaching process to make it odorless and use as cooking oil, insoaps, in the manufacturing of edible ghee (vanaspati), paints, pigments, lubricants, auto oil, & production of biodiesel etc. Refined, modified fat is now often is used as a substitute for cocoa butter in confectionery industry.