Studies on the Lipid and Glyceride Compositions of Cassia alata Seed Oil
Keywords:
Cassia alata, Lipid, glyceride compositionsAbstract
The oil composition of Cassia alata seed collected from three different districts of Bangladesh was investigated. All the seed samples contain about 3.2 % oil. The triglyceride component of the oil varied from 91.5 to 92.0 % diglyceride from 3.4 to 3.9 % and monoglyceride from 1.5 to 2.1 %. The lipid components were almost the same in all the samples, the neutral lipid accounted for over 93 % of the total lipids present. The analysis of the fatty acid composition showed 25.6 % oleic acid, 45.5 % linoleic acid, 18.7 % palmitic acid, 3.5 % stearic acid, 3.4 % arachidic acid and 3.2 % behenic acid. Bangladesh J. Sci. Ind. Res. 41(1-2), 83-88, 2006218
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