Extraction and utilisation of cassava seed oil

✍ Scribed by V.I.E. Ajiwe; S.C. Umerie; C.A. Okeke; V.N. Oburota

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 173 KB
• Volume: 47
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0960-8524
• DOI: 10.1016/0960-8524(94)90033-7

✦ Synopsis

Oil was extracted from crushed Cassava (Manihot esculenta) seeds by Soxhlet. The yield of the oil was 23.75+0.56%. The quality of the oil was assessed in terms of iodine value, saponification value, acid value, free-fatty-acid content and specific gravity. These showed that it was a semi-drying oil which was highly unsaturated, non-acidic and would require only little purification. The oil could be useful for making liquid soap and hair shampoo.