Rice bran oil
Rice oil is a vegetable oil made from rice.
Composition
The triglycerides of rice oil are fatty acid esters namely to about 47 % monounsaturated fatty acids, esters, 33% esters of polyunsaturated fatty acids and about 20 % of esters of saturated fatty acids.
The Trigliceride are esters of fatty acids following:
Use as a food
You can use rice bran oil as olive oil for cooked and raw foods or just for seasoning and garnish salads and sauces. It has a high content of vitamin E and squalene, a triterpene linear on. Ideally, it is also suitable for the preparation of risotto.
In Japan, there were several cases of mass poisoning, the so-called Yusho disease through contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls rice oil.
Use as a renewable resource
Rice bran oil is used in addition to the use as food mainly in cosmetics. It serves as raw material for the production of certain varieties of soap.
In addition, it is used for the suppression of oxidation in cosmetic formulations, even though it contains unsaturated fatty acids.
A more recent application is the use as drilling mud in oil production.
Related Links
- Olionatura over rice germ oil