American palm kernel oil

Chemical Designations - Synonyms American palm kernel oil Aouara oil Palm seed oil Chemical Formula Not applicable. 

OILS, EDIBLE TUCUM American palm kernel oil, Aouara oil, Palm seed oil NL 0 1 0 ... 

Two distinctly different types of oils are produced from the fruit of the Southeast Asia and African oil palm, Elaeis guineensis, and its hybrids with the South and Central American palm E. oleifera. Palm oil is otained from the fleshy part of the fruit, which resembles an oversized olive about the size of a small chicken egg. Palm kernel oil is derived from the kernel within the nut. Well over 98 percent of the fatty acids in palm oil belong to the C 16 and C 18 group, whereas approximately 64 percent of the fatty acids in palm kernel oil consist of the C 12 and C 14 lauric group. 

Elaeis guineensis is an edible oleaginous plant, known as African oil pabn or macaw-fat. This tree produces three different edible oils palm oil extracted from the pulp of the palm fruit, coconut oil and palm kernel oil extracted from the kernels of the coconut (copra), and oil palm (Reeves et al., 1979). Palm oil can also be obtained from the American oil palms Elaeis oleifera and Attalea maripa, but only hybrids between these species are planted commercially thus they present higher disease resistance and lower unsaturated fatty acid profiles in the oil. 

Marina A. M., Man Y. B. C., Amin I. (2010). Use of the SAW sensor electronic nose for detecting the adulteration of virgin coconut oil with RBD palm kernel olein. J Journal of the American Oil Chemists Society 87,263-270. 

Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) is believed to be indigenous to West Africa. More than 80% of the world s palm oil comes from Southeast Asia, mainly Malaysia (50%) and Indonesia. Another species, such as American oil palm (Elaeis oleifera), are also cultivated for vegetable oil. One hectare of oil palm plantation produces 4.51 of oil per year which is three times the yield of coconut and more than 10 times that of soybean. Oil palms accumulate 90% of their oil in the mesocarp of fruits (pahn oil contains mostly palmitic and oleic acid, together 80% 10% LA), and the remaining comes from seed kernels (they contain >60% of medium-chain FAs, mainly, lauric acid). Pahn oil is mostly used in food products, as well as an oleochemical feedstock and a feedstock for biodiesel production. Pahn kernel oil is a most important feedstock used in the production of detergents and other applications of medium-chain FAs. 

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