Mowrah

Mowrah Madhuca latifolia, M.longifolia, M.indica). This is mainly an Indian product where the fat is used for edible and industrial purposes. The nuts contain 46% of oil with variable levels of palmitic (15-32%), stearic (16-26%), oleic (32-45%), and linoleic acid (14-18%) (140). 

Stearic Aceituno, iiiipe, mango, mowrah, sai, shea... 

Mowrah butter [bassia or illipe confused with borneo tallow, see illipe butter (Madhuca latifolia and M. longifolia, Sapotaceae)]... 

Commercial quantities of mowrah butter are obtained by expelling. The oil is used for soap making and to a lesser extent as an edible oil. The meal contains a poisonous saponin, mowrin, which has been used to kill worms. 

Monoamine derivatives of fatty acids, 320 Monoclinic chain packing, 323 Monoclonal theory of smooth muscle proliferation, 539 Monoene acids and esters, 3, 273 see also individual compounds Monogalactosyldiacylglycerol, 35,314,491, 492, 515, 516, 523,384 Monoglucosyldiacylglycerol, 35 Monolayers, 338-41, 356, 380 Monolaurin, 362-64 Monomeric acids, 174 Monomyristin, 340 Mono-olein, 328, 364,382,384 Monoperoxymaleic add, 460 Monoperoxyphthalic acid, 460 Monoperoxysuccinic acid, 460 Monophytanylglycerol, 27 Monostearin, 333 Montanic acid, 1 Monotropic polymorphism, 325 MONSAVON process, 241 Mormon cricket, 145 Morphine, 80 see also Poppy seed oil Mouse, 144 Mowrah butter, 72 MS-API, 434 MS applications, 436 Mwcor lipids, 152,153, 478... 

Bhattacharyya, D.K. and Banerjee, K. (1983) Modification of sal fat (Shorea robusta) and mowrah fat (Madhuca latifolia) by methyl ester-triglyceride interchange reactions. J. Am. Oil Chem. Soc. 60, 841-845. 

Shea Butter (Kerite Fat) is obtained from seeds of a tree which grows in western Africa and the cultivation of which appears to be uneconomical. The high content of unsaponifiable matter (up to 11%) in this kind of butter is of interest. Borneo Tallow (Illipe Butter) is obtained from the seeds of a plant native to Java, Borneo, the Philippines and India. It serves as a valuable edible fat in the Tropics. Mowrah butter (often marketed as Illipe butter) is derived from a different plant... 

This Includes a number of vegetable butters, such as cocoa butter (made from the cocoa bean), Borneo tallow or green butter (made from Malayan, an East Indian plant), shea butter (made from an African plant), and Mowrah fat or illipe butter (made from an Indian plant and used for soap and candies). 

Other iess known vegetable butters include Shea butter from the African plant Butyrospermum parkii, Mowrah fat or iiiipe butter from the Indian plant Bassia longifolia, and nutmeg butter. By broadening the definition of butter to include foods that are spread like butter, peanut butter, hazelnut butter, and walnut butter are included as vegetable butters. 

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