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Fatty acid composition of lipid extracts of some tropical cucurbit seeds |
Oléagineux, Corps Gras, Lipides. Volume 5, Number 4, 323-8, Juillet - Août 1998, Fiche technique
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Author(s) : Rosane Armougom, Isabelle Grondin, Jacqueline Smadja |
Summary : Fatty acid composition of six cucurbitaceae seed oils grown in Reunion Island (Indian Ocean) is made. The oil yieds are as following : Lagenaria leucaritha, commonly named gourd with three varieties : bottle (22,3 %), scrabby (16,4 %) and long (21,9 %) ; Luffa acutangula or angled Luffa (24,7 %) and Luffa cylindrica or smooth Luffa (27,4 %) ; Momordica charantia or margoze (32,6 %).
Seed oils obtained from Luffa genus are widely abundant in palmitic (C16 : 0), oleic (C18 : 1) and linoleic (C18 : 2) acids. Lagenaria genus seed oils providing from bottle and scrabby varieties are both together rich in palmitic (C16 : 0) and linoleic (C18 : 2) acids , long variety is rather an oleic (C18 : 1) and linoleic (C18 : 2) typical one. Lipids extracted from Momordica charantia are characterized by high contents of stearic acid (C18 : 0) and conjugated acids in C18 : 3 which the most important is the a-eleostearic acid [C18 : 3 (9Z,11E,13E)]. |
Keywords : cucurbitaceae, seed oil, fatty acid, Lagenaria, Luffa, Momordica, a-eleostearic acid. |
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