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Antioxidants in Oilseeds, Vegetable Oils
Reuters as reported in abcNews.co.com
From abcNews - Health
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 14, 2002
Researchers are uncovering in oilseeds and vegetable oils a wealth of health giving trace substances
that help prevent cancer and heart disease, a conference heard this week.
More work must be done to see how many of the wide range of phytonutrients and antioxidants can be isolated and spun off as
added value products, biochemist Fereidoon Sahidi from Canada's Memorial University said.
Our scientists speaking at the edible oil conference in Istanbul described products in development or already on the
market, such as red palm oil, being touted as full of natural Vitamins A and E.
Crude palm oil is the richest natural source of caoteniods, which the body utilizes as Vitamin, containing about 15 times more
than carrots, said Chu-Sing Koh of the Malaysian Palm Oil Promotion Council.
It also has high levels of Vitamin E, and unlike many other natural sources contains both types of the Vitamins, tocopherols
and tocotrienols, the latter having been shown in tests to kill breasts cancer cells, he said.
"In-vitro studies show tocotrienols are 40-60 times more potent as an antioxidant than tocopherols,"
said Koh, who heads the scientific and technical department of the Council.
Antioxidants neutralize free radicals in the body, an excess of which can damage DNA and can cause cancer
and heart disease. The Palm Oil council developed the technology to process a reddish cooking oil, marketed as Carotino
that contains 80% of the carotenoid content of crude palm oil, Koh said.
The oilseed, Canola, known as rapeseed in Europe also contains a wealth of important trace components, Canadian scientist
Elzbieta Kurowska told the conference.
Her research with KGK Synergize Inc. showed that several components were able to inhibit growth of cells of the five most common
cancers in laboratory dishes.
In further trials, they identified one of the most promising elements and created an extract from canola meal rich in free
phenolic acids, which reduce the incidence and size of skin cancer tumors in mice.
More research is needed to see if the extract can be made into a product to prevent skin cancer, one of the most widespread cancers,
she said.
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