Choo YM

Choo YM

Malaysia

Publications
  • Research Article
    Tocotrienols Concentration Using Packed Column Supercritical Fluid
    Author(s): Ng MH, Choo YM, Chuah CH and Hashim MANg MH, Choo YM, Chuah CH and Hashim MA

    Palm oil is the richest source of natural tocotrienols. Tocols in palm consists of both tocopherols and tocotrienol in the amount between 600 ppm-1,000 ppm in crude palm oil. Both tocopherols and tocotrienols have been found to be beneficial to health with the tocotrienols exhibit more powerful antioxidant and anti-cancer power than the tocopherols. Effort has been made to extract and recover the valuable tocols from palm oil, where they are being made into food fortifier, nutritional supplements or as ingredients in cosmetics formulations. This paper reports on the application of supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) for such purpose. The process and feasibility of extraction and recovery of tocols from palm using SFC are reported whereby it was found that the SFC is able to purify the palm tocols in consistent purity and production rate with no effect on the processing time. Toco.. View More»
    DOI: 10.4172/2157-7110.1000718

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