Crambe seed

By way of a specific example let us consider erucic acid. The main commercial source of erucic acid is a specially bred form of rape seed (HEAR) as pointed out above. With European consumption being around 60 000 tpa almost 40 000 ha of land are used to grow rapeseed for erucic acid production in Europe. The high level of erucic found in this type of rape seed oil make it unsuitable for human consumption, owing to the indigestibility of such large amounts of this acid. Erucic acid is also the major fatty acid to be found in nasturtium and crambe seeds (up to 75% and 56% respectively), and it is also found in the salad herb, rocket. 

Derivation Fats and oils from mustard seed, rape-seed, and crambe seed. 

C11HJ9NO10S2 389.404 The major glucosinolate from crambe seed. Amorph. solid (as K salt). [a]o -25 (c, 3.4 in H2O). 

Fig. 3.16. The appearance of radioactivity in fractions extracted from developing Crambe seeds. Slices of developing Crambe seeds were fed with C-glycerol and extracted at different...

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Crambe seed cake contains high levels of proteins and fibers but also high levels of glucosinolates (3-6% (w/w)) that are toxic after hydroxylation and must be removed if the seed cake will be used as potential nutritional feeds for animals. The high protein and fiber levels make crambe seed cake a potential valuable byproduct in different nonfood fields. The aambe seed cake has been studied for protein-based plastic production (Newson, 2015). In addition, the aambe seed cake may be nseful as an adsorbent material in removing the toxic metals such as cadmium, lead, and chromium from contaminated aqueous solutions (Artus, 2006 Oliveira et al., 2009 Gonsalves et al., 2013 Rubio et al., 2013). 

Toledo, M.Z., Teixeira, R.N., Ferrari, T.B., Ferreira, G., Cavariani, C., Cataneo, A.C., 2011. Physiological quality and enzymatic activity of crambe seeds after the accelerated aging test. Acta Sci. Agron. 33 (4), 687-694. 

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