Process for refining glyceride oil and purifying triglyceride oil obtained by such process

A triglyceride oil that is obtained as the triglyceride enriched eluate fraction from a process comprising:

• passing a glyceride oil through a size exclusion column packed with porous particles having a mass weighted mean particle size of 20 lam to 1,000 lam and an average pore size of 10 A to 150 A to remove partial glyceride without using any solvent;
• and
• collecting an eluate fraction enriched in triglyceride,
• wherein the partial glyceride content of the triglyceride enriched eluate fraction expressed in wt. % is at least 50% lower than the partial glyceride content of the glyceride oil, and
• wherein the glyceride oil that is used as the starting material in the process is selected from non-hydrogenated vegetable oil, a fraction of such an oil or a combination of two or more of these oils, and said vegetable oil being selected from palm oil, palm kernel oil, coconut oil, sunflower oil, soybean oil, rapeseed oil, linseed oil, olive oil and combinations thereof, and
• wherein the triglyceride enriched eluate fraction comprises at least 99 wt % of triglyceride and an amount of diglyceride, such amount of diglyceride being less than 0.3 wt % of diglyceride.