Taste and nutritional value make sweet corn a valued plant an important component of the human diet worldwide. Kernel nutritive composition has been reported in various papers, but description carotenoid tocopherols profile, especially after cooking is scarce. Therefore, present study was carried out to compare tocopherol content before cooking. Contents b-carotene, lutein+zeaxanthin (d-T, b+g-...

Abstract Linseed oil is appreciated for its high level of linolenic acid. In order to avoid oxidation, the precious storage lipids are protected in seeds by lignans, tocopherols, and cyclo‐lino peptides. Oxidation specific peptides can be attributed formation a bitter off‐taste cold pressed linseed oils. A complete degradation tocopherols intact CLO, ‐M, ‐N, ‐L, ‐B oxidized forms observed with ...

  Background: The dried fruits of Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertn (Compositae) contain silymarin, an isomeric mixture of flavonolignans. Silymarin acts as a strong anti -hepatotoxic. This fruits contains a high amount of oil .  Objective: The objective of this study was to determine total lipid content, fatty acid composition and content of different kind of tocopherols in seed oils of S. marianum...

ABSTRACT: Degumming and neutralization processes are two essential stages carried out on crude edible oils in order to remove some unwanted impurities namely gums and free fatty acids. In this research study two popular less expensive commercial oils that are consumed to a great extent namely soyabean and sunflower seed oils are selected and subjected to both degumming and neutralization proces...