Open AccessPalm carotene production technologies – A membrane perspective
Author(s) -
Eryk Bone Pratama Nabu,
Anny Sulaswatty,
Sutrasno Kartohardjono
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/1053/1/012136
Subject(s) - carotene , saponification , palm oil , transesterification , food science , chemistry , membrane , palm , vitamin e , antioxidant , coconut oil , biochemistry , physics , quantum mechanics , catalysis
Palm fruit mesocarp and palm oil matrix contain valuable minor substances such as carotene, tocopherol and tocotrienol. Carotene convey important nutritional function which are pro vitamin A activity and antioxidant. Therefore, numerous studies have been developed to establish method of preparing carotene preserved red palm olein. Furthermore, the review of carotene concentrate production through palm oil transesterification into fatty acid methyl ester and its successive concentration methods will be presented. Post treatment stage includes particularly saponification process and could involve membrane technology. A perspective on the potential application of membrane based methods in carotene concentrate production stages will be briefly discussed.