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Separation and quality of fish oil from precooked and non-precooked tuna heads

  • Suganya Chantachum
  • , Soottawat Benjakul
  • , Nisit Sriwirat
  • Prince of Songkla University

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Abstract

Separation of crude oil from precooked and non-precooked skipjack tuna heads by a wet reduction method was carried out. Both heating temperature and time affected the separation and oil quality. Optimum conditions for separation of crude oil involved heating samples at 85°C for 30 min, followed by pressing at 140 tons/m2 using a hydraulic press. Yields of crude oil prepared from precooked and non-precooked samples were 2.8 and 4.8%, respectively. Crude oil obtained from non-precooked samples showed markedly higher quality than that from precooked samples. Crude oil from precooked samples had a higher peroxide value and much darker colour than that from non-precooked samples. However, crude oil from precooked samples had higher DHA (25.5%) than that from non-precooked samples (18.8%). (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)289-294
Number of pages6
JournalFood Chemistry
Volume69
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 May 2000
Externally publishedYes

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