QUANTITATION OF MAJOR COMPOUNDS PRESENT I N DEODORIZER DISTILLATES FROM FATS AND OILS

Deodorizer distillates are valuable by-products of edible oil refining and can have a wide range of characteristics. The value and uses clea rly depend on their composition. A knowledge of their composition woul d allow refining processes, to be compared and the influence of deodor ization conditions to be determined. In this paper, TLC/FID is applied to determine deodorizer composition in a rapid, single step analysis, separating hydrocarbons, free fatty acids, triglycerides and sterols. This analysis had similar reproducibility to other chromatographic te chniques.