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Effects of coconut oil on heart lipids and on fatty acid utilization in rapeseed oil
Author(s) -
Bellenand J. F.,
Baloutch G.,
Ong N.,
Lecerf J.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
lipids
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.601
H-Index - 120
eISSN - 1558-9307
pISSN - 0024-4201
DOI - 10.1007/bf02534418
Subject(s) - rapeseed , erucic acid , coconut oil , sunflower oil , lauric acid , food science , linoleic acid , lipidology , clinical chemistry , fatty acid , chemistry , sunflower , canola , vegetable oil , biology , biochemistry , agronomy
Male adult Sprague‐Dawley rats were fed diets containing 15% by weight of sunflower oil, coconut oil, rapeseed oil or combinations of these oils for 5 or 60 days. The digestibility of erucic acid (22∶1), lauric acid (12∶0) and linoleic acid (18∶2) was measured and found to be decreased for erucic acid at both time intervals, and for lauric acid after 60 days when coconut oil and rapeseed oil were blended. The cardiac lipodosis was proportional to the content of erucic acid in the diet. At 60 days, the high level of 22∶6 in the cardiac phospholipids of rats fed rapeseed oil was reduced by the addition of sunflower oil but not by coconut oil. Thus, the blending of rapeseed oil with coconut oil apparently is less desirable than that of rapeseed oil and sunflower oil.