Fatty acids selenium-containing

Subsequent epidemiological studies have supported the association between better health and long-term consumption of diets rich in foods of plant origin. " However, whether this is because such diets minimize exposure to deleterious substances (e.g., oxidized cholesterol, pyrolysis mutagens, salt, saturated fat, etc.), or maximize intake of certain beneficial nutrients (e.g., isothiocyanates and other sulfur-containing plant constituents, mono-unsaturated fatty acids, and poly-unsaturated fatty acids, PPT, poly acetylenes, selenium, terpenes, etc.) or some combination as advocated in the Polymeal concept, remains unknown. " An in vitro study indicates that there may be mechanistic basis for true synergy between PPT and isothiocyanates. ... 

Date pulp is low in fat and protein but rich in sugars, mainly fructose and glucose, making it a potent source of caloric energy. It contains excellent amounts of amino acids for protein dietary minerals such as selenium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, manganese, and iron several B vitamins vitamin C omega fatty acids phytosterols and both insoluble and prebi-... 

Fatty Acids Containing Sulfur, Selenium, or Tellurium... 

When samples of the ethyl esters of linoleic and linolenic acids were tested at the 1.6 % level in a vitamin E-free diet with low selenium content, both these fatty acids produced exudative diathesis and gave rise to formation of peroxides in the affected fat tissue, but only linoleic acid produced encephalomalacia. This experiment has been repeated many times with diets containing added selenium so that the exudative diathesis was suppressed. In these cases encephalomalacia was the only symptom it occurred only with linoleic acid, not with linolenic acid. The samples of linolenate tested contained a certain amount of trans-isomers it is not known whether the presence of these isomers played a role in preventii encephalomalacia. It is clear, however, that whereas the acceleration of exudative diathesis is related to polyunsaturation of the dietary fatty acids, the production of encephalomalacia is a more complicated matter depending on the structure of the polyunsaturated fatty acid (Dam et aL., 1958b). 

Phytochemistry The leaves contain tannins, caffeic, oleanolic, ursolic acids, and essential oil (including citral, citronellol, myrcene, and geraniol). The aboveground parts contain ascorbic acid, potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron, manganese, copper, zinc, molybdenum, chromium, aluminium, barium, tungsten, silicon, nickel, sulfur, lead, and selenium. The seeds contain fatty oil (Volinsky et al. 1983 Camat et al. 1998 de Sousa et al. 2004 Maznev 2004). 

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