Nutritive characteristics of cold-pressed pumpkin seed oil

Abstract

The composition and content of several bioactive components of cold pressed oils, obtained from 10 samples of selffertile sorts and F1 hybrids of oil pumpkins which grow in our region. The composition and content of fatty acids, content of tocopherol, sterols and squalenes were determined. The obtained results show that the pumpkin seed oil is of high quality regarding the high content of monounsaturated fatty acids (37,1 ± 0,70 to 43,9 ± 0,78 %), tocopherols (38,03 ± 0,30 - 64,11 ± 0,07 mg/100g), sterols 39,21 - 897,79 mg/100g) and squalens (548,80 ± 14,6 - 788,30 ± 15,1 mg/100g).

Ispitivan je sastav i sadržaj pojedinih bioaktivnih komponenti u hladno presovanom ulju poreklom iz 10 uzoraka semena samooplodnih sorti i F1 hibrida uljanih tikvi koje uspevaju na našem podneblju. Određen je sastav i sadržaj masnih kiselina, sadržaj tokoferola, sterola i skvalena. Dobijeni rezultati ukazuju na veoma kvalitetno ulje s obzirom na visok sadržaj mononezasićenih masnih kiselina (od 37,1 ± 0,70 do 43,9 ± 0,78 %), tokoferola (38,03 ± 0,30 - 64,11 ± 0,07 mg/100g), sterola(639,21 - 897,79 mg/100g) i skvalena (548,80 ± 14,6 - 788,30 ± 15,1 mg/100g).