Garden cress oil

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Garden cress oil is obtained from garden cress (Lepidium sativum L) seeds, by cold pressing (hydraulic pressing), solvent extraction (soxhlet) and supercritical CO2. The total oil content of garden cress seeds is 21.54% (by solvent extraction method) garden cress oil has a typical smell of mustard oil but less pungent than mustard oil.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ Diwakar, Bastihalli Tukaram; Dutta, Pinto Kumar; Lokesh, Belur Ramaswamy; Naidu, Kamatham Akhilender (2010). "Physicochemical Properties of Garden Cress (Lepidium sativum L.) Seed Oil". Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society. 87 (5): 539. doi:10.1007/s11746-009-1523-z. S2CID 84640977.
  2. ^ Umesha, S.S.; Naidu, K. Akhilender (2012). "Vegetable oil blends with α-linolenic acid rich Garden cress oil modulate lipid metabolism in experimental rats". Food Chemistry. 135 (4): 2845–2851. doi:10.1016/j.foodchem.2012.05.118. PMID 22980881.


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