Talk:Defatting

Hoax
Can't find any real reference on Google to "2-Methoxybenzaldehyde". 4-Methoxybenzaldehyde is a skin irritant. "Or more commonly known as Anisaldehyde" This is an anise component which occurs in food. Defatting does get some mention on Google, in relation to as a cooking technique to reduce the amount of fat in cooked foods. "2-Methoxybenzenecarboxyldehyde" get 0 Ghits. The whole article, as written is nonsense. Cheers Clappingsimon talk 02:48, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

"...caused by the chemical transformation of the oils (lipids) which constitute the cell membranes."

Aren't the lipids just dissolved, not actually chemically changed? --71.227.190.111 03:13, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Well, dude...I do not know about the food defatting...which seems to constitute merely scooping out the floating oil off soup and skimming fat of the meat...

I'm a chemist, and I know for a fact that chronic exposure to kerosene and such similar substances which are capable of dissolving fats present in your skin, leads to a condition known as defatting, whereby the natural oils present in the region of chronic exposure (of skin) reduces drastically. Other substances that are capable of defatting upon chronic substance exposure are methanol, isopropanol, isooctane and so on. --Karthik r 22:35, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

You are quite right...the lipids are only dissolved, not transformed. (Karthik r 13:44, 17 March 2007 (UTC))

Split April 2010
This article discusses two pretty discrete topics, "defatting" as a process of removing fat from food (either by trimming or skimming), and "defatting" as a biochemical process with medical implications. There really isn't much overlap except in the name and the literal implications contained in the meaning of the name. So I figure it should be split up. &mdash;/M endaliv /2¢/Δ's/ 14:08, 10 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Though I agree that a split should be done, I'm not convinced the food process should be called 'defatting' at all. 'Degreasing' is a much more common term, it pulls 580,000 odd results on google, 'defatting' pulls less than 100,000 and that includes the medical use as well. I propose, the content about the food process be moved to degreasing (currently a redirect), the medical/ biochemical content be moved to defatting (medical) or defatting (biochemical), and this page become a disambiguation page, linking to the other two articles. I'll carry this out shortly if there are no objections. -France3470 (talk) 16:33, 22 March 2010 (UTC)


 * I've carried out the split. I've moved the the content about fat removal to degreasing by reversing the redirect. Defatting is now a redirect to degreasing, as this is the most common usuage. The medical content has been moved to defatting (medical) which is accessiable from a dab link at the top of degreasing. I decided against creating a disambiguation page titled defatting (disambiguation) as it would serve little purpose and just be clutter as per WP:MOSDAB. France3470 (talk) 16:34, 25 April 2010 (UTC)