Nutritional evaluation of sweet orange citrus sinensis seed oil

Highlighting the nutritional benefit of oil gleaned from seed sweet orange Citrus sinensis has become necessary; owing to fact that is predominantly considered a waste. Therefore, aim present study was investigate benefits extracted family; Rutaceae, and order; Sapindales. A total 2.0 kg coarsely crushed seeds were immersed in 15 liters n-hexane for 72 hours batches with intermittent vigorous shaking further using soxhlet extractor. Other procedures analysis performed standard methods. The result revealed that, anti-nutrients levels found be within safe limit, vitamin minerals fell daily recommended intake limit. proximate composition contains; Protein 1.560±0.120, Moisture content 4.636±0.153, Fat 89.810±0.282, Ash 1.776±0.161, Crude fibre 0.619±0.052 Carbohydrate 1.614±0.036. Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) presence following fatty acid compounds; Linoleic 37.644%, Palmitic 28.051%, Isopropyl linoleate 12.699%, Pentadecanoic 9.652%, Stearic 5.839%, Butyl 2.867, Glutaric 2.616%. indicating it’s an excellent choice both industrial purposes.