Claim · model-written summary
The seed oil contained mostly unsaturated fatty acids.
- Taxon
- Phoenix dactylifera L.
Phoenix dactyliferat0 - Outcome
- unsaturated fatty acidse0
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Verbatim
t0“Phoenix dactylifera L.”
e0“the oil fraction contained unsaturated fatty acids in majority”
Title
Oum Kelthoum Laghouiter; Mohamed Benalia; Nadhir Gourine; et al. Mediterranean Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism 2018. doi:10.3233/mnm-17185
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Observation Oil yield of the nine date palm cultivar seeds ranged from 4.86% to 6.7%.
- Observation Oleic acid preponderated in the seed oil at 37.83-55.00%.
- Observation Lauric acid in the seed oil ranged from 6.63 to 25.36%.
- Observation Myristic acid in the seed oil ranged from 9.30 to 19.33%.
- Observation The unsaponifiable fraction contained sterols and tocopherols.
- Observation Sterol content ranged from 4.7 to 8.45 mg/g DW.
- Observation Total tocopherols ranged from 0.32 to 0.74 mg/DW.
- Observation Alpha-tocopherol was the predominant tocopherol (15.57%-74.1%).
- Observation (beta+gamma)-tocopherol followed at 25.12%-56.01%.
- Observation The seed oils had a moderate bleaching effect on DPPH free radicals.
- Observation Seed oils of Ghars, Sbo3 Lossif and Timjhourt were the active ones in the DPPH assay.
- Recommendation The authors suggest date seed oil is a useful source of edible oils for human consumption.