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The triglyceride composition of Hibiscus esculentus seed oil
Author(s) -
Sengupta A.,
Roychoudhury S. K.,
Saha S.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
journal of the science of food and agriculture
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.782
H-Index - 142
eISSN - 1097-0010
pISSN - 0022-5142
DOI - 10.1002/jsfa.2740250408
Subject(s) - chemistry , triglyceride , composition (language) , food science , palmitic acid , myristic acid , oleic acid , hydrolysis , linoleic acid , stearic acid , fatty acid , chromatography , biochemistry , organic chemistry , cholesterol , linguistics , philosophy
The fatty acid composition of Hibiscus esculentus seed oil was determined by spectrophotometry and gas‐liquid chromatography. The percentages of individual acids were found to be: myristic, 0.2; palmitic, 30.2; stearic, 4.0; palmitoleic, 0.4; oleic, 24.4 and linoleic, 40.8. Triglyceride composition was calculated from the fatty acid compositions of the native oil and of the monoglycerides produced from it by pancreatic lipase hydrolysis. The oil is composed of 1.8, 27.7, 48.1 and 22.4% GS 3 , GS 2 U, GSU 2 and GU 3 , respectively.