Bioactive Compounds of a Wheat Bran Oily Extract Obtained with Supercritical Carbon Dioxide.

A wheat bran oily extract obtained with supercritical carbon dioxide at 25.0 ± 0.1 MPa and 40 ± 2 °C has been analyzed in order to determine some valuable bioactive compounds as alkylresorcinols, α-linolenic acid, steryl ferulates, tocopherols and phenolic compounds, which levels were around 47, 37, 18, 7 and 0.

Formulation and characterisation of wheat bran oil-in-water nanoemulsions.

Wheat bran oil (WBO) has been reported to have an important content of bioactive compounds, such as tocopherols, alkylresorcinols, steryl ferulates and other phenolic compounds; however, its poor solubility in water systems restricts its applications in the food industry. This study is focussed on the formulation of oil-in-water (O/W) nanoemulsions of WBO in order to improve the bioaccessibility of its active compounds. The influences of oil concentration, surfactant type and concentration, and emulsification method, on the droplet size and stability of the nanoemulsions were investigated.

Characterization of triacylglycerol composition of fish oils by using chromatographic techniques.

Triacylglycerols (TAG) of two different refined fish oils from sardine and a mixture of tuna and sardine oil were separated by reverse phase high performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) with a binary solvent gradient of acetone/acetonitrile. Different fractions were observed in the chromatogram and TAG species were tentatively identified by subsequent analysis of the fatty acid (FA) profile in each fraction by capillary Gas Chromatography (GC). Peak identities were assigned on the basis of a multiple linear regression analysis by using factors such as carbon number, number of double bonds, number of monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFA) and number of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) in the molecule as predictors for TAG retention time.