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by Sara Wyant
John Baize was on a mission to sell more U.S. soybean oil in Egypt. But there was a problem, according
to the government buyer who was charged with procurement of edible oils in that country. Their citizens
were buying cottonseed and sunflower oil from other countries because they thought soybean oil
smelled “fishy.”
“I handed him a bottle of Wesson oil, made from U.S. soybeans,” recalls the oilseed consultant about the
meeting that took place in the early 1990s. “And I asked him to go home and have his wife cook
something with it. The next day, he wanted to learn how refineries in his country could produce the
same thing.”
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