Abstract
Abstract The contemporary consumer has become wary of extensive food processing. Yet aside from certain organoleptic properties of food products, such as taste, color, clarity, odor and mouth feel, the consumer may not be able to appreciate benefits of oil processing, which in general are physical modifications. In this study biochemical indices of cardiovascular risk were evaluated and compared for oils modestly or conventionally processed. The results were applied to a current, deadly, degenerative cardiomyopathy. A degenerative cardiomyopathy (DCM) has been observed among mustard oil (MUST) users in China who eat 150 ml/week. Though the condition may be a Se deficiency, MUST may bear a cardiotoxic or pro-oxidant substrate(s). To test this, 80 male, weanling Wistar rats were divided into four groups and fed AIN76A diet for eight weeks: 1) MUST, 2) high erucic acid rape seed oil (HEAR), 3) low erucic acid rape (LEAR), or corn oil (CORN). Half of each group receiving 0.43 mg/kg Se supplement. Neither se nor oil type affected growth in the trials, though serum Se rose with dietary Se addendum, P
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