The commercial significance of oil content analysis: the position of official methods -- Primary reference methods for crude fat determinaton -- Soxtec: its principles and applications -- Accelerated solvent extraction -- Evaluation of the rapid, high-temperature extraction of feeds, foods, and oilseeds by the ANKOM[XT20] fat analyzer to determine crude fat content -- Analytical supercritical fluid extraction for food applications -- Comparative evaluation of primary reference methods and issues related to oil analysis -- Oil content analysis: myths and reality -- Effect of moisture content, grinding and extraction technologies on assays of crude fat -- Secondary methods for crude fat analysis -- The rapid determination of fat and moisture in foods by microwave drying and NMR analysis -- Simple methods for total oil content by benchtop NMR -- Internet-enabled near-infrared analysis of oilseeds -- Emerging technologies -- High-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance and near infrared determination of soybean oil, protein and amino acid residues in soybean seeds -- Near infrared microspectroscopy, fluorescence microspectroscopy, infrared chemical imaging and high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance analysis of soybean seeds, somatic embryos and single cells.