Abdul Manaf, Marina and Che Man, Yaakob and Ismail, Amin (2009) Virgin coconut oil: emerging functional food oil. Trends in Food Science & Technology, 20 (-). pp. 481-487. ISSN 0924-2244
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Abstract
Virgin coconut oil (VCO) is growing in popularity as functional food oil and the public awareness of it is increasing. It is expected that VCO will experience a dramatic growth in the market. The introduction of VCO has open up new research that basically reveals new things besides what has already been known on commercial coconut oil. This paper mainly discusses on some of the findings associated with VCO up to date. Physicochemical properties, antioxidant activity, clinical and authentication studies of VCO were some of the topics addressed in this review.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Keyword: | Virgin coconut oil |
| Subject: | Coconut industry |
| Subject: | Coconut oil - Health aspects |
| Subject: | Fatty acids in human nutrition |
| Faculty or Institute: | Faculty of Food Science and Technology |
| Publisher: | Elsevier Ltd |
| DOI Number: | 10.1016/j.tifs.2009.06.003 |
| ID Code: | 17598 |
| Deposited By: | Khairil Ridzuan Khahirullah |
| Deposited On: | 05 Dec 2011 11:26 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Dec 2011 23:47 |
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