vegetable oils

slide 1 vegetable oils where is the oil located? plants use stored oil as food for germinating embryo, caloric content is high so is efficient storage material. double that of carbohydrates and proteins. oil can be stored in endosperm (castor, coconut), cotyledons (peanut, soybean), scutellum (corn), fruit pulp (palms and olives). seeds have organelles called as glyxosomes that convert fatty acids into carbohydrates during germination. oils mainly hydrocarbons made up of glycerol (backbone) with three fatty acids chemically bonded to it - triglycerides cholesterol unsaturation the number of double bonds determines the level of saturation. vegetable oils are complex mixtures and saturation levels cannot be calculated directly very easily; % saturation is determined by iodine method, iodine ...

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