Abstract
A research work was carried out on the physicochemical properties and fatty acid composition of Tamarindus indica seeds oil using standard Analytical methods and PYE Unican 304 Gas Chromatography. The physicochemical properties results for seed oil were: acid value (5.10), peroxide value (9.60), free fatty acid (2.05), iodine value (82.50), saponification value (279.20), refractive index (1.467) and specific gravity (0.8423).The results indicated that the oils of Tamarindus indica seed might be useful for domestic consumption due to low acid value, free fatty acid and peroxide value. The fatty acids compositions showed that seed oil contained higher unsaturated fatty acids (74.0%) and low saturated fatty acid (26.0%) with most abundant acid being linoleic acid methyl ester (44.967%), thus making it more nutritionally important.
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