Locational variations of physiochemical characteristics of selected medicinal plants

Department of Chemistry, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar-125 004, Haryana, India

E-mail: mukhandagar88@gmail.com

Manuscript received online 11 July 2019, revised and accepted 17 July 2019

The present study evaluates the seed oils of different medicinal plants for physiochemical characteristics and fatty acid composition. In this study, petroleum-ether (60–80ºC) was used for the extraction of oil using Soxhlet technique. The yield of extractable seed oil were ranged from 6.4±0.1% to 42.5±0.4%. The peroxide value was ranged from 0.8±0.1 to 2.2±0.1 meq/ kg. The mean iodine value of seed oil were lowest in case of P. pinnata and highest in A. nilotica. The saponification value of seed oil (184.2±1.0 to 219.4±0.7 mgKOH/g) and unsaponifiable matter was varied from (1.6±0.1–7.2±0.1%). The oleic acid and linoleic acid was detected as the major fatty acid in seed oil.