Estimation of cholesterol content in some commercial edible Refined Sunflower –Brand oils in Mumbai, Maharashtra

Zodape G. V.; Dhawan V. L.; Wagh R. R.

Volume : VI, Issue : V, May - 2016

Estimation of cholesterol content in some commercial edible Refined Sunflower –Brand oils in Mumbai, Maharashtra

Zodape G. V. , Dhawan V. L. , Wagh R. R.

Abstract :

The 12 samples of oils of Refined Sunflower –Brands were purchased from local market from Mumbai city from September, 2011 to, December 2011.The packed propylene bags, were stored at – 20 0C in deep freezer in the Department of Zoology, S.S & L.S. Patkar College, Goregaon (West) Mumbai for further analysis. The present study was carried out to estimate the sterol content and degree of un–saturation of fatty acid in edible Refined Sunflower oils. In the present scenario of nutrition science, the role of fats and oils in human nutrition and their health is found to be very effective. It is now also known that fats and oils besides their earlier recognized role as conventional nutrient as energy provider, may also play on efficient and competent role in immune responses by decreasing dietary total fat intake with the inclusion of higher amounts of phytosterols such as sitosterol and also moderate amounts of poly unsaturated fatty acids with adequate antioxident nutrients. The result shows that the degree of unsaturation was higher in plant oils in comparison to animal fat and among all plant Refined Sunflower oil had highest degree of unsaturation. Higher degree of unsaturation of oils is good for the human health. So, apart from all the above discussion the conclusion was made that plant oils are good for consumption as it contains unsaturated fatty acids as well as plant oils are rich in phytosterol i.e. sitosterol, which lowers the cholesterol absorption in human beings