PRODUCTION AND OPTIMIZATION OF SUGAR APPLE SEED OIL, AS A SUSTAINABLE AND ECONOMICALLY VIABLE ALTERNATIVE TO OTHER COMMERCIAL OILS.

Abstract

There is growing interest in natural products and their potential therapeutic applications in various industries, such as the cosmetic, pharmaceutical, and food industries. Sugar apple seed oil has been shown to possess various therapeutic properties. The following where determined in this study peroxide value, free fatty acids (FFA)/Acid, saponification value, specific gravity/density, iodine value, unsaponifiable matter, gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-Ms), Fourier transform infrared (FTIR). The extraction yield of sugar apple seed oil was found to be 54.6%. The peroxide value was 0.375 mol/kg. The free fatty acid content of the oil was found to be 7.57 mg/g. The acid value was 3.785 mg/g. The saponification value of the seed oil was found to be 210.375 mg/g. The specific gravity of sugar apple seed oil was found to be 0.907 kg/m3, and the density was found to be 0.925 kg/m3 . The iodine value of the oil was 0.355 g/100g. The unsaponifiable matter of sugar apple seed oil was found to be 0.05%. The GC-MS analysis of sugar apple seed oil revealed the presence of several compounds, including n hexadecanoic acid, limonene, octadecadienoic acid, octadecanoic acid, 2- hydroxy-1-(hydroxymethyl)ethyl ester, and n-decanoic acid. N-hexadecanoic acid. From the FTIR peaks identified in sugar apple seed oil at the peak at 700 cm 1 is attributed to the presence of the out-of-plane bending of C-H of aromatics, indicating the presence of aromatic compounds in the oil. Therefore, the results obtained for sugar apple seed oil indicate that it is of good quality and falls within the permissible limits.