Bioactive Phytochemicals from DatePalm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) Seed Oil Processing By-products

Title

Bioactive Phytochemicals from DatePalm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) Seed Oil Processing By-products

Creator

Wudali S.N.; Banadka A.; Nagella P.; Al-Khayri J.M.

Description

Humans cultivate plants for their daily commodities, like food and medicines. Innumerable varieties of crops and plant-derived products like cotton, fruits, vegetables, grains, pulses, and oils have been developed. A variety of seed oils have been used by humankind in dietary supplements and regarded as feedstock for the production of biofuels. Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) is one such plant used in the production of oil. Date palm is a commercial fruit that is primarily cultivated in South Mediterranean countries. Date palm fruit and its processed products such as jams, jellies, and syrup are globally consumed. However, tons of seed waste is generated after processing and raises environmental problems due to poor seed waste disposal practices. Scientific reports suggest that date palm seed oil is a rich in minerals, fatty acids, and various phytochemicals like phenols, flavonoids, sterols, and tocopherols. These bioactive molecules possess significant pharmacological activities like antidiabetic, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antimicrobial, and hepatoprotectivity. This chapter summarizes the phytochemicals present in the date palm seed oil, discusses the fatty acid composition in various date palm cultivars worldwide, and highlights the pharmacological activities exhibited by the date seed oil. The chapter also discusses the effective utilization of date seed oil in the food and pharmaceutical industry and the seed oil by-products in biofuel production. Pharmaceuticals and biofuel production presents an excellent opportunity for the valorization of date palm cultivation and economic returns. 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Source

Reference Series in Phytochemistry, pp. 455-481.

Date

2023-01-01

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media B.V.

Subject

Biofuel; Fatty acids; Phoenix dactylifera; Phytochemicals; Seed oil; Valorization

Coverage

Wudali S.N., Department of Life Sciences, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Karnataka, Bangalore, India; Banadka A., Department of Life Sciences, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Karnataka, Bangalore, India; Nagella P., Department of Life Sciences, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Karnataka, Bangalore, India; Al-Khayri J.M., Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, College of Agriculture and Food Sciences, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia

Rights

Restricted Access

Relation

ISSN: 2511834X

Format

Online

Language

English

Type

Book chapter

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91381-6_20

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