Avocado oil is growing in popularity in Africa, but how is it made?

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Avocado oil is growing in popularity in Africa because it has many health benefits. In this video, we'll learn how a small start-up company in Kenya has defied the odds and created its own machinery and approach to avocado oil production.
Avocado oil has many benefits which explains the growing global demand for the products. We'll also explore some of the controversies surrounding avocado oil, and explore whether or not it is a good choice for the African market.

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@manuelericmijangos499 Жыл бұрын

Instead of exporting the drums of avocado oil to Italy, where it is bottled and exported as a value added product world-wide, they should bottle and export the avocado oil themselves.

@barrytelesford5265 11 ай бұрын

exactly

@edwinfweni 10 ай бұрын

The refining machines are 20× more expensive! That's why many producers go for crude! Can go upto 3mil. Usd

@susanapollo284 10 ай бұрын

Absolutely. It’s then exported to USA and other European countries where we pay about 1600 shillings for 16oz bottle

@khodahh 10 ай бұрын

The real issue i'm having with your comment is that the bottleing of avocado oil does not add much value, this man already added most of the value to the product by transforming it. The issue is that he is not compensated fairly for the value he added through the transformative process ... The italian embottling company is the one grifting. I dont know much about trading deals between kenya and italy, but it might have set up this predatory situation.

@BaronEvola123 10 ай бұрын

Sounds like a good idea and it's always good to have value added products, but there are thousands of considerations to take into account, from secure energy to processing to controls to investments. IDK anything about the process itself, nor if it's worth it for this item to be manufactured locally vs. it being exported. It sounds good, but Kenya(?) may find more value in exchanging raw food stuffs for a tech transfer, for instance. You're looking at a very low-tech operation here. This looks like an operation that could be in Europe in the early 1900's. It's on it's way and that's good, but it's far from 1st world, international standards. Right now, this is not a high-tech, high value operation. Infrastucture; roads, reliable electricity/energy will determine first what is possible. While being a nice product, Avocado oil is not high on the "to do" list. It's downstream from more pressing considerations. This video is basically a "shout out" to possible investors. If you feel the way you do, put some $ together, go bribe some officials and invest.

@AfrikanMan 7 ай бұрын

Kazi safi sana kijana. Ũyū nī njamba ya rūrīrī Keep the good work going strong.

@maishayangu9216 Жыл бұрын

Oh mr. Thiong'o, i hope that you patented your process so that no body would steal from you!

@sommmaverick5840 Жыл бұрын

Kudos, my young African Brothers its irony that Italy is # 1 importer of oils like olive, avocado etc. I don't think they do magic to it but bottle it with fancy names and sell to the world. You guys can research and get the value added business and yes they sell back to us Africans.

@revimfadli4666 Жыл бұрын

@@handlenot030 ironic because Italy is known for their olive oil-based cuisine?

@sakurakou2009 Жыл бұрын

It called branding, the made in europe brand is saw as more valuable then made in africa

@truthdude8849 Жыл бұрын

@@sakurakou2009 Africans should see more value in a made in africa brand

@sustainableyorkshire9465 Жыл бұрын

Africa is where the journey begins, Shame organisations like Innovate Uk taking advantage of remote farmers! Repugnant 🤢

@Yamin-zo1bm Жыл бұрын

You mean exporters

@greenknight8239 Жыл бұрын

My mind is blown by the sheer ingenuity of this young man 😮✨

@maanvindermangat1812 Жыл бұрын

I purchased my first bottle of extra virgin avacado oil today and that’s extracted in Kenya 🇰🇪

@wawerukamau1260 9 ай бұрын

What the cost in ksh.

@AmeZidi_ Жыл бұрын

Wow, I am super impressed with what my fellow Kenyans are doing with this type of innovation. Until today, I had no idea that we (Kenya) are the #1 avocado exporter in Africa and the #6 avocado exporter worldwide.

@barrytelesford5265 11 ай бұрын

it would be better to make multiple product from the avocado and export that instead. 10x

@josephkanyugi3799 10 ай бұрын

@@barrytelesford5265 This guy is OK. I just wonder what level of education Kennedy has. He is a genius.

@olupotdeogracious9192 7 ай бұрын

Am glad I landed on this it has blown my mind, though I have great appreciation for the innovation

@tinwandobegang4075 Жыл бұрын

I'm marvelled by his level of ingenuity . Pure avocado oil produced in Kenya ! I'm so proud of you ! He's got brains .Kudos to this great researcher 💪💪💪

@stevenmutumbu2860 Жыл бұрын

Avacadoes are fetching good money in Europa America and even China and many peoples are ripping big in my Motherland kenya but to value addition the way to go.+44

@Rig0r_M0rtis Жыл бұрын

People have been pressing olive and other fruit oil since the ancient times, where exactly is the ingenuity?

@jossewasonga1016 Жыл бұрын

I'm amazed by this guy's level of genius 🔥

@bhartley1024 9 ай бұрын

Reclaiming the condensate and feeding back into the boiler saves energy too, as the water is still hot. Might also be a good idea to look into a screw/auger press with a built-in heater. I've used such a press for extracting coconut oil from copra.

@daviddavis7959 Жыл бұрын

Ok the process of drying the pulp on the trays. I believe he uses the waste to make brickets and the brickets are used to heat the boiler which contains water and when the boiler gets hot it produces steam, the hot steam is then directed to the trays via pipes to dry the pulp. The pulp while in the process of drying produces water. Man that is really genious. Thats what i call circular economy. He can re-use the water that comes from drying the pulp, back into the boilers

@barrytelesford5265 11 ай бұрын

yeah that is good reuse of most of the inputs.

@lschmidt2405 10 ай бұрын

Looks like the water evaporates freely to air

@omailtheresia 10 ай бұрын

We shall reach there. We have everything in Africa.

@kariukikahiga4233 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for being a torch bearer in innovation @ a local level. Please maintain the humility I found in you. Utaenda mbaali!

@daviddavis7959 Жыл бұрын

Wow this is amazing. The potential of avacado is huge from eating , cooking oil and hair oil. The nuts can be grinded into an organic fertilizer and may be into a chicken feed meal.

@africanadage852 Жыл бұрын

@David Davis. I understand the powdered avocado seeds are used in managing some heart diseases from time immemorial.

@Fortnitegirl65 Жыл бұрын

Wow working place so clean

@Lwasampijja Жыл бұрын

@@africanadage852

@stevenmutumbu2860 Жыл бұрын

Value addition the way to go pround of my MOTHERLAND Kenya Avacadoes as super food are fetching Markets all over the World Europe And America and China also but the farmers have to come together and do away with the Middlemen/Brokers and and mitigates how to exports their produce..they get 10 to 20 shillings for 1 Hass avocado that less than 40 pence in UK and we are buying them more than 1£ and 50 pence

@kimutairop2847 10 ай бұрын

Avocado residue is toxic to chicken 🐓. Great as manure.

@hypersonic3808 Жыл бұрын

Connect his compressor & heating pads to a dc solar system… that way he can save few more $💵

@kumarsheth9786 Жыл бұрын

Anyone wanting to make their avacados organic .. get in touch ..

@sakurakou2009 Жыл бұрын

I hope they keep developing and grow their factory and make brand of it

@suzannasmogoleski6411 Жыл бұрын

Avocado seeds are the most nutritional part of the Avocado...I put them in a blender after i break them down to small pieces and put them in a smoothie...

@stephenknutson6256 Жыл бұрын

What's really good about this system, is it can be done efficiently on a fairly small scale, instead of a big factory. Urbanization without people having to go to a large city for work. I can see a thousand of these spreed across Africa set up as a cooperative.

@chukwunedugeraldonuchukwu2367 11 ай бұрын

You're right on! That's exactly how I would like to do in many African countries, including buying up thousands of hectares of farmland to community-based farming.

@knownfate 9 ай бұрын

Shame that they have to sell outside Africa , the company is good for kenyan employment opportunites but fellow african countries are still suffering unfair trade with this foreign countries

@justusmochoge6577 10 ай бұрын

I have just become an avocado farmer I guess I have a reason to increase my trees. Thank you Ken for creating more value here

@motivationcode19 9 ай бұрын

Thinking about Avocado farming

@Jassi-bg2ub Жыл бұрын

You can sell the Dry waste in markit as a Cattle feed , it will help you earn more money then as a burning them as fuel , It Still have lots of Nutrious velue in , and it will help farmers to produce more good quality milk ..

@dismas4357 10 ай бұрын

Very true cows love eating ovacado too even when it's bad

@user-hi7gu1tb2w 8 ай бұрын

A good video well done.l am a Nigerian and a retiree thinking l can learn from you and also have a way of making more money but this is beyond my capability.l wish you all the best.

@isiomaamma9869 Жыл бұрын

Kudos to them for doing this because when i was a teenager in the Caribbean i use to use avocado treatment for my hair

@alysteps2 Жыл бұрын

amazing! might try avocado oil ;)

@ndiritukibugi Жыл бұрын

This guy is a genius

@TheDebcb52 Жыл бұрын

Avocado 🥑 is not only good, it is also nutritious 🥑😋🥑👍

@glen7661 Жыл бұрын

Most Avo oil is fake and or mixed with other oils! Google it!

@ashalee1576 11 ай бұрын

I love this. The waste can also be used as plant fertiliser

@dismas4357 10 ай бұрын

Waste can be used as animal feed

@wawerukamau1260 9 ай бұрын

There is no waste in this system. He is making biocharcoal used as an energy source to the boiler.

@cyantess8423 Жыл бұрын

he produces a product that sells & job creation amazing guy

@edsantos6627 Жыл бұрын

Fish and poultry feeds can be a branch produce from this industty... potential is huge... carry on.. 🙏👍🙏👍

@MrDSantos 9 ай бұрын

God blessed Kenyans with such a beautiful skin it's so shiny and bright, instead of just focus on the content I'm like hypnotized by looking at them 🙈😂 just because of their unique skin!

@pamiedudhnath2191 Жыл бұрын

May the blessings of God always be with you my brother. Keep up the God job

@wawerukamau1260 9 ай бұрын

Hope you expand your production and also produce biodiesel from avocados and save the country from recurring expenditure in foreign exchange.

@nubienespokenword9722 10 ай бұрын

Love this. It is the only oil I use it . It is the best. It can take the high/temperature heat, which does not cause Carcinogens.

@damanypalmer5849 Жыл бұрын

The world need more like you kudos

@ladyjlovingkindness1165 10 ай бұрын

Great that you believe in employing people than using a machine. Keep to your ethics in producing your product!🙏🏾😊😘

@LalisasToxicHusband 4 ай бұрын

Shut up, Lady J. Loving Kindness

@RAMADHANKHAMIS 11 ай бұрын

Ken, this is very encouraging. All the best ...

@livelaughlovelife1830 Жыл бұрын

It would be really cool if somehow there's a way to use the skin as well

@josephkanyugi3799 10 ай бұрын

When President, Dr. William Ruto says that we add value to our products, this is the kind of activity he wants us to get into. The Professors, Mechanical Engineers should study this process and write further thesis about how to improve, and replicate at say KShs 500K instead of 40 million. The last person who said so was Moi when he constructed three Nyayo pioneer cars. We have a lot of avocado in this country and we can get more of these oil factories and get the women and young men out of the streets,

@sustainableyorkshire9465 Жыл бұрын

Wow wow wow! 💜 What’s the name of your company for this oil please!

@kennedythumari1871 Жыл бұрын

Alpine Agribuz

@ashfordmuriungi7142 Жыл бұрын

I like this guy innovation at its best

@mbk1251 Жыл бұрын

Changed over to buying the oil here in the UK instead of the fruit because in the supermarkets too many ppl squeeze the avocados to test weather they are ready to eat even though they clearly labelled as ready eat type .no issues of ending up badly damaged avocados now with the oil it easy to keep for long periods of time in the oil taste is constantly the same it all wins if I could buy in gallon form would be best just yummy

@coilycrown5130 Жыл бұрын

They are doing wonderful quality of work with avocados 🥑 for oils for multiple uses… I would definitely like me some that avocado oil😍

@Gakanga-moses Жыл бұрын

Good job and great innovation... GPT's_plumbers is always ready to work...

@leroy44 Жыл бұрын

Great work. One challenge though is that heat destroys certain lipids within the avocado oil. Perhaps you can consider ways of extracting the oils without raising the temperature.

@TonyisToking 7 ай бұрын

Freeze drying. Freeze drying would be the answer.

@simenyasikhulu 11 ай бұрын

Very practical creativity. Hongera. Kazi nzuri.

@Truthseeker371 11 ай бұрын

I cook without any oil. Taste is good and more natural fragrance with the ingredient.

@bambam76 10 ай бұрын

Amazing! Awesome to see such innovation and entrepreneurship. Well done!

@DermaEsther 3 ай бұрын

Well done! This is really inspiring! I like the fact that you use steam for the heating process, as this helps preserve its natural properties.

@michaelg6686 Жыл бұрын

The process is great but a bigger press will help.good work guys.

@lornaolanvlog Жыл бұрын

Amazing processing oil ♥️👏I love avocado 🥑

@veronicaasantewa2532 Жыл бұрын

Wow very nice thanks for sharing.

@ToddAndelin Жыл бұрын

avocado oil has a high smoke point.... lots of people in usa are now using it....

@abigailrutendochiadzwa2008 Жыл бұрын

This is just amazing. Keep it up

@rodney73991 Жыл бұрын

good job. love hard work and farming. sure go far. long willing work.

@wycliffekipkorir88 9 ай бұрын

this is great work. i am really impressed as a food technologist.

@stefanogizzler Жыл бұрын

This is absolutely impressive and innovative, Really cool!!

@AnitaJewelBias 10 ай бұрын

I was here for this process!

@silverdragontv8472 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing..I will try this process

@LewisGatonyeOfficial Жыл бұрын

Awesome work👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

@JLVera Жыл бұрын

Aguacate y Jitomate From Mexico to the world

@zablonreuben 10 ай бұрын

New subscriber here, kudos bro. Love from Kenya🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪

@sileshiedo7097 Жыл бұрын

Good job 👍 I really appreciate ur effort to come up with such creativity 👏 👍

@rosewambui8026 Жыл бұрын

Great. Much needed oil in Kenya

@mikelemon5109 11 ай бұрын

Go AvoTech! Go Sports! Go Innovation!

@adorableninos 9 ай бұрын

wow! very smart! great work

@user-ki8ei6mi4w 10 ай бұрын

Wonderful, wonderful, I hope you are getting good money for this, it takes a lot of work, get respect.

@barringtontaylor1155 Жыл бұрын

Excellent job blessed love brother keeping shining 👍

@koolreggae1996 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant my brothers

@empresskofoworola 10 ай бұрын

Wao amazing i hope he supply to Africa and Nigeria too

@rodericko9534 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful..well done guys.. God bless you in Jesus name

@mosesmofficial Жыл бұрын

Wow this is so innovative, good job.

@sightsandevents 10 ай бұрын

Great video, thanks for sharing.

@isesufaith880 Жыл бұрын

This is amazing

@salomhamunyela2390 10 ай бұрын

Green manufacture processing, kudos to the team

@sullivansu4922 Жыл бұрын

This is amazing, 💪👏👏

@mendesmutar2724 10 ай бұрын

Great Mam, god will bless you in all your production it's very hard as a job but we can see that you doing all best Bless you

@agrippanyagwaya2308 11 ай бұрын

Can you please add a video on how the dryer works.... Watching yu from Zimbabwe

@user-cu9po6kq6o 10 ай бұрын

Huge repect for these enterpreneurs from Africa!

@Globally1201 Жыл бұрын

UHH-MAZING!!!... AND AWWWSOME!!!... KEEP GROWING AFRICA!!!😃🌳🌳🙋🙏➕👌👍🌄🇺🇸

@homesteadingwithsadie 10 ай бұрын

awesome , very intresting

@hopearising2545 Жыл бұрын

Wow.. this is amazing

@adeyhenrietta343 Жыл бұрын

Waow great initiative. Much love from Cameroon 🇨🇲

@lh2988 Жыл бұрын

This is awesome I love avocado oil ❤

@Missiuniqk 10 ай бұрын

wow I'm impress by your work guys. Genius

@kasiryetonny8180 Жыл бұрын

This is wonderful.

@mariettezinhagel5658 Жыл бұрын

Congratulation with tour product. I am wondering if you can make an other product of the skin and the seeds. by example soap or foodcolloring or solloring to tie die textiles. I wish you succes and GODS BLESSINGS

@storiesrecap2400 Жыл бұрын

can the avocado waste not be used as animal feed?

@DanielSakala-np1ro Ай бұрын

My thoughts as well. It can be a good feed for animals

@nicholasmutahi2398 7 ай бұрын

This is very innovative

@vivianwanini9169 10 ай бұрын

Kenya 🇰🇪 my country may God continue blessing you 🙏 ❤

@naju332 Жыл бұрын

they got no idea how much damage avocados does to the land draining it of every drop of water

@nuwanbalasooriya1445 Жыл бұрын

Excellent....

@alexanderemeh1302 10 ай бұрын

Welldone and Good job. The same thing happens to crude oil which is exported outside Africa and imported back as PMS. But with good support from our government, we would surely get there. More Grease to your elbow.

@stiveperfumes Жыл бұрын

Such amazing creation

@abrahamberhane6007 Жыл бұрын

Excellent my fellow brothers

@udintanichannel Жыл бұрын

amazing

@florencekariuki6232 Жыл бұрын

Great work for Kenyans God bless

@frankiebeauttah3761 Жыл бұрын

Great

@stellan9666 Жыл бұрын

Where can you buy this avocado oil in kenya?

@theodoratesha7065 10 ай бұрын

If you have avocados, you can make oil by your self. Niko Tanzania, na Huwa natengeneza kidogo kwaajili ya nywele.

@momowo4317 11 ай бұрын

are you selling to Canada?

@delilashapaka8104 10 ай бұрын

Hands are more helpful, creating jobs for humans rather than a machine that fails and repairs waiting availablility and period leads to stress. Manual is healthy, people are always available and if one cannot show up a family member is always available. Africa unite