Lipid comprising long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids
AssigneesCommonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Nuseed Pty Ltd, Grains Research and Development Corporation
InventorsJames Robertson Petrie, Surinder Pal Singh, Pushkar Shrestha, Jason Timothy McAllister, Robert Charles de Feyter, Malcolm David Devine
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Abstract
The present invention relates to extracted plant lipid or microbial lipid comprising docosahexaenoic acid, and/or docosapentaenoic acid, and processes for producing the extracted lipid.
Claims8
Extracted plant lipid, comprising fatty acids in an esterified form, the fatty acids comprising oleic acid, palmitic acid, ω6 fatty acids which comprise linoleic acid (LA), ω3 fatty acids which comprise α-linolenic acid (ALA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), and optionally one or more of stearidonic acid (SDA), eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), docosapentaenoic acid (DPA) and eicosatetraenoic acid (ETA), wherein the level of palmitic acid in the total fatty acid content of the extracted lipid is between about 2% and 16%, and wherein the level of myristic acid (C14:0) in the total fatty acid content of the extracted lipid, if present, is less than 1%, and wherein the level of DHA in the total fatty acid content of the extracted lipid is between 20.1% and 35%.
A process for producing extracted plant lipid, comprising the steps of
- i) obtaining a plant part comprising lipid, the lipid comprising fatty acids in an esterified form, the fatty acids comprising oleic acid, palmitic acid, ω6 fatty acids which comprise linoleic acid (LA), ω3 fatty acids which comprise α-linolenic acid (ALA), stearidonic acid (SDA), docosapentaenoic acid (DPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), and optionally one or more of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and eicosatetraenoic acid (ETA), wherein the level of palmitic acid in the total fatty acid content of the extracted lipid is between about 2% and 16%, and wherein the level of myristic acid (C14:0) in the total fatty acid content of the extracted lipid, if present, is less than 1%, and wherein the level of DHA in the total fatty acid content of extractable lipid in the plant part is between 20.1% and 35%, and
- ii) extracting lipid from the plant part,
- wherein the level of DHA in the total fatty acid content of the extracted plant lipid is between 20.1% and 35%.
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