mixing said wet gums with water containing a phospholipidolytic agent allowing the mixture to separate into two or more phases said two or more phases including at least an oily phase and an aqueous phase and recuperating said oily phase application_number US 19808405 A description in step a wet gums can conveniently be obtained by treating crude vegetable oil such as soybean oil rapeseed oil sunflower seed oil and the like with warm water or live steam this treatment is preferably carried out immediately after the extraction solvent has been removed from the oil miscella by evaporation at that point in time the crude oil has a temperature that hardly needs any adjusting for the water degumming process to be carried out the amount of water to be used in the water degumming process varies but it is commonly about equal to the amount of mucilaginous matter to be removed from the crude oil by the water degumming process accordingly the wet gums obtained by this process usually have a water content in the range of 40 to 60 by weight but the process of the invention is in no way limited to a starting material with this water content the temperature of the wet gums will hardly have changed during the water degumming process so that it will preferably be in the range of about 40 to 90 u00b0 c accordingly the expense of heating or cooling the wet gums can often be avoided but the process of the invention in no way excludes a temperature adjustment of the wet gums before they are mixed with water containing a phospholipidolytic agent in step b this mixing step b.