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Impact of the Mode of Extraction on the Lipidomic Profile of Oils Obtained from Selected Amazonian Fruits

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Grupo de Diseño de Productos y Procesos (GDPP), Department of Chemical Engineering, Universidad de los Andes. Carrera 1E No. 19 A 40 Edificio Mario Laserna, 19A-40 Bogotá, Colombia
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Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones Científicas Sinchi. Calle 20 # 5-44 Bogotá, Colombia
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Multiscale and Multiphysics Modeling Lab, Department of Chemical Engineering, Virginia Tech (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), 298 Goodwin Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24060, USA
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Biomolecules 2019, 9(8), 329; https://doi.org/10.3390/biom9080329
Received: 27 May 2019 / Revised: 11 July 2019 / Accepted: 13 July 2019 / Published: 1 August 2019
(This article belongs to the Section Natural and Bio-inspired Molecules)
Oils and fats are important raw materials in food products, animal feed, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals among others. The market today is dominated by oils derive, d from African palm, soybean, oilseed and animal fats. Colombia’s Amazon region has endemic palms such as Euterpe precatoria (açai), Oenocarpus bataua (patawa), and Mauritia flexuosa (buriti) which grow in abundance and produce a large amount of ethereal extract. However, as these oils have never been used for any economic purpose, little is known about their chemical composition or their potential as natural ingredients for the cosmetics or food industries. In order to fill this gap, we decided to characterize the lipids present in the fruits of these palms. We began by extracting the oils using mechanical and solvent-based approaches. The oils were evaluated by quantifying the quality indices and their lipidomic profiles. The main components of these profiles were triglycerides, followed by diglycerides, fatty acids, acylcarnitine, ceramides, ergosterol, lysophosphatidylcholine, phosphatidyl ethanolamine, and sphingolipids. The results suggest that solvent extraction helped increase the diglyceride concentration in the three analyzed fruits. Unsaturated lipids were predominant in all three fruits and triolein was the most abundant compound. Characterization of the oils provides important insights into the way they might behave as potential ingredients of a range of products. The sustainable use of these oils may have considerable economic potential. View Full-Text
Keywords: oil extraction; lipidomic profile; Amazonian palms. oil extraction; lipidomic profile; Amazonian palms.
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Cardona Jaramillo, J.E.C.; Carrillo Bautista, M.P.; Alvarez Solano, O.A.; Achenie, L.E.K.; González Barrios, A.F. Impact of the Mode of Extraction on the Lipidomic Profile of Oils Obtained from Selected Amazonian Fruits. Biomolecules 2019, 9, 329. https://doi.org/10.3390/biom9080329

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Cardona Jaramillo JEC, Carrillo Bautista MP, Alvarez Solano OA, Achenie LEK, González Barrios AF. Impact of the Mode of Extraction on the Lipidomic Profile of Oils Obtained from Selected Amazonian Fruits. Biomolecules. 2019; 9(8):329. https://doi.org/10.3390/biom9080329

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Cardona Jaramillo, Juliana E.C., Marcela P. Carrillo Bautista, Oscar A. Alvarez Solano, Luke E.K. Achenie, and Andrés F. González Barrios. 2019. "Impact of the Mode of Extraction on the Lipidomic Profile of Oils Obtained from Selected Amazonian Fruits" Biomolecules 9, no. 8: 329. https://doi.org/10.3390/biom9080329

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