Journal
ANTIOXIDANTS
Volume 4, Issue 1, Pages 124-133Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/antiox4010124
Keywords
fruit seed; oil content; fatty acids; vitamin-E-active compounds; by-products; oil characterisation
Funding
- Scientific and Technical Research of Turkey (TUBITAK)
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, Germany)
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Oil content, fatty acid composition and the distribution of vitamin-E-active compounds of selected Turkish seeds that are typically by-products of the food processing industries (linseed, apricot, pear, fennel, peanut, apple, cotton, quince and chufa), were determined. The oil content of the samples ranged from 16.9 to 53.4 g/100 g. The dominating fatty acids were oleic acid (apricot seed oil, peanut oil, and chufa seed oil) in the range of 52.5 to 68.4 g/100 g and linoleic acid (pear seed oil, apple seed oil, cottonseed oil and quince seed oil) with 48.1 to 56.3g/100g, while in linseed oil mainly -linolenic acid (53.2 g/100 g) and in fennel seed oil mainly 18:1 fatty acids (80.5 g/100 g) with petroselinic acid predominating. The total content of vitamin-E-active compounds ranged from 20.1 (fennel seed oil) to 96 mg/100 g (apple seed oil). The predominant isomers were established as - and -tocopherol.
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