Fatty acid composition of sea-buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnodes L. ) oil
- VernacularTitle:Чaцаргана (Hippophae Rhamnodes L.) жимсний тосны хүчлийн бүрдлийн судалгаа
- Author:
Badamtsetseg S
1
;
Bayanmunkh A
;
Lkhagva L
;
Khurelbaatar L
Author Information
1. Drug Research Institute
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
fatty acid;
Hippophae rhamnodes;
sea buckthorn seed and pulp oil
- From:Mongolian Medical Sciences
2014;169(3):47-50
- CountryMongolia
- Language:Mongolian
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Abstract:
IntroductionSea buckthorn is known to be one of the vitamin-rich berries in the plant kingdom and has beencredentialed as highly valued for healthy living, improving well-being, enhancing lifestyle, and preventingthe disease. Widely recognized in Northern regions of Europe and Asia, Hippophae rhamnodes hasbeen used medicinally for thousands of years. Both of seed and pulp oil have tocopherols, carotinoids,as well as ω-3 and ω-6 fatty acid families. The seed oil is highly unsaturated, with proportions of linoleic(C 18:2n-6) and α-linolenic (C18:3n-3) acids between 30-40% and 20-35%, respectively, whereas thepulp oil is more saturated containing high amounts of palmitoleic (C16:1n-7, 16-54%) and palmitic acids(16:0,17-47%). Many researchers including Laagan B., Avdai Ch., Tsendeekhuu Ts., Vernik S. R.,Jamyansan Y., Badamkhand D., Odonmajig P have determined content of berry, fatty acid compositionof sea buckthorn pulp and seed oil since 1970 in Mongolia. However, total fat and fatty acids compositionof Hippophae rhamnodes general is known, limited reports exist dealing with comparative differencesin fatty acid composition of Hippophae rhamnodes grown in Mongolia. Therefore, we analyzed thecomposition of fatty acids pulp oil and seed oil in sea buckthorn grown in Mongolia.Materials and MethodsPulp and seed oil were produced in Monos Food Co Ltd., and fatty acid methyl ester were analyzedusing Agilent Packard Gas Chromatograph (GC) (Model HP-6890 Agilent Packard) with mass-spectrumdetector (Model HP MSD 5973N).ResultThe results indicated that unsaturated fatty acids in the seed oil (85.4%) and in pulp oil (62.5%) arehigher than saturated fatty acids of seed oil (14.6%) and pulp oil (37.1%) respectively. The mostimportant factor defining the nutritional value of oil is ratio of unsaturated fatty acids present in oil. Theseed oil contains palmitic acid (10.8%), oleic acid (20.3%), limoleic acid (42.9%), α-linolenic acid (5.6%),Eicosadienoic acid (14.7%). Pulp oil of Hippophae rhamnodes has palmitic acid (35.4%), palmitoleicacid (38.5%), oleic acid (including Vaccenic acid) (6.6%) and linoleic acid (10.4%). The palmitic acid andpalmitoleic acid ratio in pulp oil was more than in seed oil. While oleic acid, linoleic acid and α-linolenicacid in seed oil have a higher ratio than that of pulp oil. It shows that unsaturated fatty acids in seed oilare much higher than pulp oil.ConclusionUnsaturated fatty acids in the pulp oil contain 62.5%, including essential fatty acid ω-3, 6, 9 (18.2%);it is content of 29.12% in unsaturated fatty acids. While, unsaturated fatty acids of seed oil contains85.4% in total fatty acid and essential fatty acid contains 96.72% in unsaturated fatty acid. It can thus beconcluded that seed oil is better than pulp oil because the former contains essential fatty acid.
