Türk Tarım ve Doğa Bilimleri Dergisi

Yazarlar: Müge SOYLU, Nasim Jalilnejad FALIZI, Tülay G. MADENOĞLU, Semih ÖTLEŞ, Yasemin S. KUKUL KURTTAŞ S. KUKUL KURTTAŞ, M.Kamil MERİÇ, Emrah ÖZÇAKAL, Hatice GÜRGÜLÜ, Nihal CENGİZ, Nalan KABAY, Mithat YÜKSEL

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Anahtar Kelimeler:Treated wastewater,Safflower,Safflower oil,Agricultural irrigation,Edible oil quality

Özet: Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L) is a plant with oil seed used for edible oil production and its cultivation has been increasing throughout the world in last decades. Although studies have shown that safflower seed oil has similar properties with olive oil, sunflower and peanut oil, due to its dominant characteristics over other plants such as tolerance for cold weather conditions, salinity and plantation in arid and semi-arid zones, it can be an alternative oil source to supply oil demand. As fatty acid composition is an important quality factor, high linoleic acid content (63-75%) of safflower oil proves its appropriateness as an edible oil. In this study, quality and physicochemical properties of oil were determined for the seeds of safflower plants cultivated by using treated wastewater. Its suitability as edible oil in comparison with oil quality standards (Turkish Food Codex) was investigated. Soxhlet extraction was employed for production of oil from safflower seeds using n-hexane as solvent. Quality and physicochemical oil analyses were applied to the safflower oils extracted. Fatty acid and sterol compositions, acidity and peroxide values, density, refractive index, iodine and saponification values were determined.

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