Vegetable fat

Structural formula of a triglyceride - the main component of vegetable fats.

Vegetable fats are fats ( lipids ) obtained from oil plants .

properties

Vegetable fats include vegetable oils , which are liquid at room temperature, but also solid or semi-solid ( spreadable ) vegetable fats. Vegetable fats are esters - more precisely triple esters - of glycerol with fatty acids, so-called triglycerides . Their extraction and classification is analogous to that of vegetable oils, partly with heating of the raw material to liquefy the fats.

Solid vegetable fats

Among the solid vegetable fats, among other Bacuributter ( Platonia Insignis ) Baobabsamenöl , Baobab oil ( Adansonia spp. ), Illipe (borneo, Tenkawangfett; Shorea spp. And mowrah ( madhuca longifolia )) Cupuacu butter ( Theobroma grandiflorum ), Phulwarabutter ( Diploknema butyracea ) , Japan wax , coconut oil , cocoa butter , Katiaufett ( Madhuca motleyana ), kokum ( Garcinia indica ), mango butter ( Mangifera indica ), astrocaryum murumuru , nutmeg butter , palm kernel oil , palm oil , sal ( Shorea robusta ), shea butter , Tucumabutter ( Astrocaryum tucuma ) Virolafett , Ocubawachs , Ucuuba oil and also Ucuuba butter ( Virola sebifera , Virola surinamensis ).

Liquid vegetable fats

→ Main article : vegetable oils

Liquid vegetable fats include canola oil , sunflower oil , soybean oil , linseed oil, and pumpkin seed oil , among others .

use

Vegetable fats are mainly used as edible fats , but also as fats for cosmetic and medicinal purposes.

literature

• Helmut Göppel: Handbook of vegetable oils - for practice, wellness and medicine cabinet. Param-Verlag, Ahlerstedt 2013, ISBN 978-3-88755-053-0 .
• Sabine Krist: Lexicon of vegetable fats and oils. 2nd edition, Springer, 2013, ISBN 978-3-7091-1004-1 .
• Sabine Kirschner, Helmut Göppel: Handbook of vegetable oils. Param, 2014, ISBN 978-3-88755-714-0 .
• Josef Schormüller : Handbook of food chemistry. Volume IV: Fette und Lipoide (Lipids) , Springer, 1969, ISBN 978-3-662-23548-5 .

Web links

• Physical properties of fats and oils (PDF; 157 kB), on dgfett.de, accessed on March 10, 2017.
• Fatty Acid Composition Of Some Major Oils on chempro.in, accessed March 12, 2017.