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Fatty Acids Composition of Adansonia digitata (Baobab) Seed Oil from Tanzania

https://doi.org/10.56279/jhss.v9i2.57
James zacharia
Sarah Lifa
Tanzania Industrial Research and Development Organization, Dar es Salaam

Corresponding Author(s) : James zacharia

james.zacharia@duce.ac.tz

Journal of Humanities & Social Science (JHSS), ##issue.vol## 9 ##issue.no## 2 (2020): SPECIAL ISSUE OF SCIENCE, 2020

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Samples of baobab fruits from which oils were extracted were collected from Sandawi and
Chamwino villages in Dodoma region, Tanzania. The oil was extracted from the kernel powders
using n-hexane and the extracts were derivatized to fatty acid methyl esters, and then subjected
to GC and GC-MS analyses for fatty acids content. The physiochemical properties of the oil
indicated that baobab seed oil is suitable for soap-making and other cosmetics. The combined
GC and GC-MS results showed the existence of eight fatty acids, namely: palmitic acid (22.02%),
palmitoleic acid (1.87%), tariric acid (7.08%), elaidic acid (41.29%), oleic acid (35.72%), linoleic acid,
(27.80%), myristic acid (0.19%), and margaric acid (0.30%). The high content of monounsaturated
and polyunsaturated fatty acids (78.04%) compared to saturated fatty acid (22.51%) suggests that
baobab seed oil has a good potential to be useful as food oil.

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Fatty Acids Composition of Adansonia digitata (Baobab) Seed Oil from Tanzania. (2020). Journal of Humanities & Social Science (JHSS), 9(2). https://doi.org/10.56279/jhss.v9i2.57
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