THE COMPONENT GLYCERIDES OF VEGETABLE FATTY OILS. PART II. SAFFLOWER OIL

The safflower.seeds (Carthamus tinctorious) yield 30.5% of oil which contains myristic acid (along with lauric and other lower acids) 1.5%, palmitic acid (3%). stearic acid (1%), archidic acid with a trace of lignoceric acid (0.5%), oleic acid (33%). linolic acid with a trace of linolenic acid (61%).

The glycerides have been determined by the bromination of the neutral oil and the component glycerides have been found to be myristo-oleolinolin (2%), myristodilinoIin (1%), palmito-oleolinolin (7%). palmitodilinolin (4%), stearo-oleolinolin (2%), stearo dilinolin (1%). dioleolinolin (15%), oleo dilinolin (63%) and trilinolin (3%). The myristo glycerides contain a little of Laurie and other lower acids. stearo glycerides contain little of archidic and lignoceric acid and the trilinolin contains traces of linolenic acid.