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A Study of the Physical, Chemical, Phytochemical and Nutritional Properties of Wild Silybum marianum L. Seeds Oil to Investigate Its Potential Use to Boost Edible Oil Self-Suffic

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Food security is now a threat to Egypt's economy. Egypt relies on large quantities of imports of edible oil. Securing those supplies led Egypt to become one of the top 10 importers of edible oils in the world. This work aimed to investigate the Silybum Marianum seeds (SMS) as a potential novel source of edible oil. Fatty acids composition, physicochemical characteristics, selected bioactive components and nutritional quality of SMS cold-pressed oil (SMSO) were examined. The results showed that SMS is a promising source of crude fat (28.04%). USFAs quantitatively accounted for 82.89% of total fatty acids, with linoleic (C18:2) being the most abundant (50.31%), followed by oleic (C18:1) at 31.76%. Unfortunately, only 0.28% represented linolenic (C18:3). The physicochemical characteristics of SMSO were in accordance with Egyptian Standards for vegetable edible oils. SMSO contained a wide range of bioactive components including silymarin 2530.79 mg/100g, α-tocopherol 307.84 mg/100g, β-carotene 30.52 mg/100g, total phenolic content 2165.83 mg GAE/100g and flavonoids 837.86 mg QE/100g. SMSO exhibited valuable nutritional quality indicators represented in the low (atherogenic and thrombogenic) indices and the high (PUFAs/SFAs, USFAs/SFAs, and hypocholesterolemic/ hypercholesterolemic) rations, while ω6/ω3 ratio was far from the recommended values. From the nutritional standpoint, SMSO is a strong candidate to serve as a functional ingredient of the human diet, whether used alone or blended with oils that are rich in ω-3 PUFAs to achieve a wide spectrum of nutritional and health benefits. Based on the obtained results, milk thistle should be cultivated extensively as an innovative resource of oil to boost edible oil self-sufficiency in Egypt.
 

DOI

10.21608/asejaiqjsae.2023.292950

Keywords

Silybum marianum, Cold-pressed oil, physicochemical characteristics, Fatty acids, bioactive compounds, nutritional quality

Authors

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Mahran

MiddleName

Zakaria

Affiliation

Department of Nutrition and Food Science, Faculty of Home Economics, Menoufia University, Shebin El-Kom, Egypt

Email

mohamed.mahran@hec.menofia.edu.eg

City

Shebin El-Kom

Orcid

0000-0003-2480-8832

First Name

Yousif Abd Elasis Elhassaneen

Last Name

Elhassaneen

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Affiliation

Department of Nutrition and Food Science, Faculty of Home Economics, Minoufiya University, Shebin El-Kom, Egypt

Email

yousif12@hotmail.com

City

Shebin El-Kom,

Orcid

0000-0003-1391-3653

Volume

44

Article Issue

1

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39130

Issue Date

2023-03-01

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2023-02-25

Publish Date

2023-03-30

Page Start

81

Page End

91

Print ISSN

1110-0176

Online ISSN

2536-9784

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ASEJAIQJSAE_Volume 44_Issue 1_Pages 81-91.pdf

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Alexandria Science Exchange Journal

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https://asejaiqjsae.journals.ekb.eg/

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A Study of the Physical, Chemical, Phytochemical and Nutritional Properties of Wild Silybum marianum L. Seeds Oil to Investigate Its Potential Use to Boost Edible Oil Self-Suffic

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23 Dec 2024