wood aple acid

[kamal herbs]

Dear Sir

I want to know the wood apple season and where it is grown in india and the method for extracting acid from the seed &. FRUIT.
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kamal herbs

 

[Ashwini]

Hi kamal

The wood-apple is native and common in the wild in dry plains of India and Ceylon and cultivated along roads and edges of fields and occasionally in orchards. The seeds contain a bland, non-bitter, oil high in unsaturated fatty acids.

Indian wood apple seed (Feronia elephantum Correa) constituting 6% (dry weight basis) of the fruit, contains 34% oil and 28% protein. The kernel comprises 62% of the seed. The oil is yellow with an iodine value 131, saponification value 192, unsaponifiable matter 1%. Fatty acid profile of oil by GLC is: palmitic 19.3, stearic 7.3, oleic 27.2, linoleic 19.8 and linolenic 26.4%. You can contact the oil technological department of india, anantpur for extraction details.


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Ashwini