Industrials interest in fats as raw material, resides in their exceptional quality and potentialities of exploitation in several fields. This study aimed to exalt the optimized shea butter quality and present its wide potentialities of utilization. Hence, the characteristics of beige and yellow optimized shea butters were determined. Both samples recorded very weak acid (0.280 ± 0.001 and 0.140...

Alkyd resin was prepared from shear butter oil (SBO) using the two step procedures; alcoholysis and polyesterification. The oil and alkyd resin were characterized and evaluated by standard methods, for their physico-chemical properties. The analysis showed that the alkyd resin based on Shea butter oil recorded average acid value of 15.2 (mgNaOH/g), iodine value (98.0 mg/g), P value 6.7, density...

The study uses the transesterification reaction method to extract glycerol from three locally processed fatty acids namely; palm oil, kernel and shea butter. glycerols extracted were subjected physicochemical tests determine if their properties are in conformity with reported standard values. Results of physical substances tested show that values close agreement results impervious literatures. ...

Four triterpene acetates, alpha-amyrin acetate (1a), beta-amyrin acetate (2a), lupeol acetate (3a), and butyrospermol acetate (4a), and four triterpene cinnamates, alpha-amyrin cinnamate (1c), beta-amyrin cinnamate (2c), lupeol cinnamate (3c), and butyrospermol cinnamate (4c), were isolated from the kernel fat (n-hexane extract) of the shea tree (Vitellaria paradoxa; Sapotaceae). Upon evaluatio...

Two traditional treatments for shea (Vitellaria paradoxa) butter processing namely storage of fresh nuts and duration subsequent boiling were studied by using the response surface methodology (RSM) to determine best treatment. Experimental influenced several kernel parameters, such as fat content (38-52% dw), redness (a* values between 6.3 11.7), viz. yield (24 36% wet weight mass), brightness ...