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Vitamin E’s safety controversy

By Neil E. Levin January 2009 One of the strongest examples today…

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Coconut oil boom

May 2016 Coconut oil is surging in popularity as a “health food,”…

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Chia: Superfood or superfad?

By Laura Cassiday January 2017 Chia is an increasingly popular food ingredient…

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One person’s response to a high omega-6 diet

By Susan Allport November 2010 Editor’s note: In a departure from the…

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The power of peptides

By Sarah C.P. Williams November/December 2015 Peptides that affect how cells function-known…

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China’s evolving edible oils industry

By Laura Cassiday April 2017 Patterns of edible oil consumption in China…

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Use of spent bleaching earth for economic and environmental benefit

By Norman J. Smallwood May 2015 Bleaching earth that has been used…

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The other vitamin E

By Laura Cassiday July 2013 The antioxidant properties, prevalence, and bioavailability of…

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Red palm oil

By Laura Cassiday February 2017 Red palm oil is mildly processed, allowing…

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Big fat controversy: changing opinions about saturated fats

By Laura Cassiday June 2015 Nutritionists have long vilified saturated fat for…

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An introduction to cosmetic technology

By Perry Romanowski April 2015 Surfactants and lipids are important ingredients in…

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Emulsions: making oil and water mix

By Laura Cassiday April 2014 After reading this article, you will understand:…

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The History of Lipid Science & Technology

Those of us accustomed to the techniques of lipidomics and molecular biology…

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Patrick Duffy and Polymorphism

The discovery and study of polymorphism in tristearin, a simple triglyceride, has…

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Biosynthesis of Plant Lipid Polyesters

All higher plants depend on extracellular lipophilic barriers that control the movement…

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Lipid Oxidation in Oil-In-Water Emulsions

1. Introduction Many food products, for example, mayonnaise, salad dressing, and milk…

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Chemistry/Physics

Animal Lipid Biochemistry Fatty acid oxidation  Glycerophosphate and acylglycerophosphate acyltransferases  Mammalian diacylglycerol…

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Oxidation of Muscle Foods

1. Why is lipid oxidation is a problem in muscle foods Lipid…

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Metal Chelators as Antioxidants

Introduction Given the abundance of pro-oxidative metals naturally occurring in many foods,…

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Antioxidants in Muscle Foods

1. Introduction Lipid oxidation in meat generates products, including hydroperoxides, free radicals,…

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Glycerophosphate and Acylglycerophosphate Acyltransferases

1.  Pathway of de novo Phosphatidic Acid Biosynthesis 1,2-Diacyl-sn-glycerol-3-phosphate (phosphatidic acid) is…

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Hydrogenation in Practice

Introduction The hydrogenation of fats and oils and their oleochemical derivatives such…

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Trivial names of fatty acids-Part 1

Introduction In the late 1990s, Rich O. Adlof and Professor Frank D.…

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Edwin (Ed) Frankel (1928-2019)

Edwin (Ed) Frankel was born in Egypt. He came to America as…

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Arthur Richard Baldwin (1918-2011)

For well over 100 years, AOCS has been blessed with leaders who…

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Arthur Richard Baldwin (1918-2011)

For well over 100 years, AOCS has been blessed with leaders who…

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Trivial names of fatty acids-Part 2

Introduction In 1930, Steger and Van Loon, encountered an unknown, heavily unsaturated…

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Silica Hydrogel and its Use in Edible Oil Processing

Introduction Crude triglyceride oils and fats from a wide range of vegetable…

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The AOCS-Supelco/Nicholas Pelick Award 1997 to the present

The history of the AOCS Award in Lipid Chemistry (1964-1981 recipients) is…

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Olive Oil

Introduction The first olive oil producer was primitive man who employed a…

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Regiospecific Analysis of Triacylglycerols

Fatty acid analysis is the starting point for most analytical studies of…

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Final Updated Market Report

Since in its inception Dr Frank Gunstone presented a detailed market report…

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Esters of Glycerol and Other Polyhydric Alcohols

Monoacylglycerols (MAG) and diacylglycerols (DAG) are important emulsifying agents. They are also…

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Oils and Fats

13C-NMR Spectroscopy 13C-NMR spectra of seed oils and of processed fats provide…

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Earl G. Hammond (1926-2017)

Earl Hammond was born on November 21, 1926, in Terril Texas where…

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Thomas H.Applewhite (1924-2012)

Tom grew up in southern California. Shortly after finishing high school he…

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The Alton E Bailey Award 2001-present

Richard F. Wilson (2001 recipient) received his PhD in 1973 from the…

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Analysis of Oxidized Sterols in Frying Oils

1.  Introduction The lipids in frying oils as well as in fried…

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Reversed-Phase HPLC of Triacylglycerols

Abstract: The resolution of molecular species of triacylglycerols by reversed-phase high-performance liquid…

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Structural Analysis of Triacylglycerols

As nearly all the commercially important fats and oils of animal and…

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Metabolism of Trans Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids Formed during Frying

1.  Introduction Double bonds in the fatty acids of vegetable oils subjected…

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Biological Effects of Frying Oils Mediated by the Activation of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors (PPAR)

1.  Introduction In recent years the contribution of frying oils to total…

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Thin-Layer Chromatography of Lipids

Abstract: There has been a tendency to discount thin-layer chromatography (TLC) in…

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Alkanoic Acids

The 13C-NMR spectra of long-chain fatty saturated acids show six easily recognised…

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Monoenoic Acids

Monoolefinic acids and their esters have significantly different 13C-NMR spectra from their…

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Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids

n-6 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids Information is given in Tables 1 and 2…

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Non-Methylene-Interrupted Polyenoic Fatty Acids

The most common non-methylene interrupted polyenes (NMIP) are acids with n-9, n-6,…

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Acids, Esters (Alkyl, Glycerol, Waxes), Alcohols and Acetates, Amides, and Nitriles

Chemical shifts (ppm) for several carbon atoms in oleic acid and some…

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Paul Karl Stumpf (1919-2007)

Professor Paul Karl Stumpf is considered by many to be a founder…

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Ernst Twitchell (1863-1929)

The Early Years Ernst Twitchell along with Ralph Potts (1900-1981) was a…