Linoleic safflower

Male C57BL/6N mice were assigned to three groups, with dietary fats composed of 6% high-linoleic safflower oil (HL-SAF) in the control diet, a mixture of 4% HL-SAF + 2% CLA in the lipodystrophy model control diet, and a mixture of 3.5% HL-SAF + 2% CLA + 0.5% DHA in the lipodystrophy model plus DHA diet. 

In 1957, scientists in Australia and California independently reported a mutation that came to be known as oleic safflower (54-56). This mutation occurred naturally and produces a plant and seed that look exactly like linoleic safflower, except for an oil whose fatty acid distribution is a mirror image of linoleic safflower oil (Table 2). The initial oleic safflower variety released by Knowles, UC-1 (57), was lower in oil content and had a poorer yield than conventional varieties available at the time. This meant that oleic safflower oil was initially sold at a premium. But agronomic research has since produced varieties that equal or even exceed normal safflower in yield and that are comparable in oil content. 

In recent years as more research has focused on the role of monounsaturates versus polyunsaturates and their effects on cholesterol reduction, oleic safflower oil has begun to receive more attention. In the United States, Saffola Grocery Products has introduced a grown-without-pesticides salad oil in which linoleic safflower oil has been replaced by the oleic type. In Japan, several bottlers have begun to feature oleic safflower oil in their gift-pack campaign both as an individually identified product and also in blends with the linoleic type. 

Because oleic and linoleic safflower seeds are virtually identical in appearance, extreme care is necessary to prevent inadvertent mixing. If a positive paper trail can be established for identifying fields of linoleic and oleic safflower from time of planting until delivery to the oil mill or storage point, much more confidence is possible when the samples are taken and the seed is checked for refractive index to... 

HOSaflr = high oleic safflower HLSaflr=high linoleic safflower HOSunflr = data reported are the average values for three independent experiments. 

During the cooling process, the response to diluents and PPD molecules is dependent on the vegetable oils FA composition and its geometry to a certain extent. Pour point determinations (65) of safflower, high oleic safflower, and high linoleic safflower in the presence of diluent and additive molecules are presented in Table 10 (68). 

Linoleic Safflower Oil. See Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius) oil Linoleic acid... 

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The high-linoleate safflower is used as an edible oil and as a component of paints giving fast-drying nonyellowing properties (no linolenic acid). High-oleic acid safflower is used as a salad oil, as a stable cooking oil and in certain pharmaceutical and industrial applications. 

Bolte, M. R., Hess, B. W., Means, W. J., Moss, G. E., Rule, D. C. (2002). Feeding lambs high-oleate or high-linoleate safflower seeds differentially influences carcass fatty acid composition. Journal of Animal Science, 80, 609-616. 

Numerous experiments with mice and rats have shown that animals on high fat diets develop mammary tumors more readily than similarly treated controls on low fat diets (Tannenbaum Silverstone, 1957 Tannenbaum, 1959 Carroll Khor, 1975 Carroll, 1975). In our own studies on rats treated with 7,12-dimethylbenz(a)anthracene (DMBA), unsaturated fats increased tumor yields more than saturated fats (Table 1). However, there did not seem to be a direct correlation with essential fatty acid content since lard and olive oil were about as effective as corn oil and soybean oil, although the latter are much richer in linoleic acid (Carroll Khor, 1971). Dayton and Hashimoto (1976) reached a similar conclusion on the basis of their experiments with an oil rich in oleic acid produced by a mutant safflower. This oil was found to be as effective as normal high-linoleic safflower oil in stimulating development of mammary... 

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