May 2016

Oil palm fruit calyx as a resource for phospholipids extraction

Oil palm calyx is a solid waste in the oil palm industry which is yet to find economic usage. This study aimed to determine the feasibility of recovering phospholipids from the oil palm calyx. Preliminary functional property of calyx phospholipids was determined using emulsion stability. Results indicated that oil palm calyx had 14% total lipids when extracted with methanol and 62.3% of lipids were acetone insoluble...

Author(s): Gold I. L., Oseni N. T. and Imoisi O. B.