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Dig Deeper with High-Resolution Ion Mobility to Improve Therapeutic Insights
Proteins and peptides have become increasingly important in therapeutics due to their…
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Simultaneous Extraction of Proteins and Oil from Oilseeds, unlocking the true potential of utilizing less processed ingredients
In today’s food chains, considerable amounts of energy and resources are dedicated…
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Student Common Interest Group Career Panel
Find out what your future self wishes they knew now! Learn about…
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The secrets of Belgian chocolate
By Laura Cassiday May 2012 Like a bonbon nestled snugly in a…
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Hempseed oil in a nutshell
By J.C. Callaway March 2010 Industrial hemp is as a class of…
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What is unrefined, extra virgin cold-pressed avocado oil?
By Marie Wong, Cecilia Requejo-Jackman, and Allan Woolf April 2010 The high…
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Five new AOCS methods
June 2017 The Official Methods and Recommended Practices of the AOCS, 7th…
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Enhancing oxidative stability and shelf life of frying oils with antioxidants
By Namal Senanayake September 2018 Conquering stability and shelf-life issues of frying…
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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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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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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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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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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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Paul Karl Stumpf (1919-2007)
Professor Paul Karl Stumpf is considered by many to be a founder…