Beauty in Baobab: a pilot study of the safety and efficacy of Adansonia digitata seed oil

Komane, Baatile; Vermaak, Ilze; Kamatou, Guy; Summers, Beverley; Viljoen, Alvaro

doi:10.1016/j.bjp.2016.07.001

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“…Eteshola and Oraedu identified a high concentration of myristic acid in oil from Adansonia seeds (38.40%), which we found in very small quantities (≤ 0.20%), as did many other authors . Various authors estimated that A . digitata oil contained no cyclic fatty acid, from which Gaydou et al .…”

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Fatty Acid Composition of Baobab Seed and Its Relationship with the Genus Adansonia Taxonomy

Gaylor

Tsy

Randriamiarinarivo

et al. 2017

Chemistry & Biodiversity

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Baobab seed oil contains specific fatty acids. Most of the studies on baobab fatty acids have been carried out singly and in isolation from each other, making it difficult to compare results through different species. The objective of the present study is to establish the seed fatty acid composition of each Adansonia species in order to evaluate and understand the relationships between the oil chemical compositions, the baobabs' taxonomy and, the ecological and geographical origin of each seed lot. The seed oils have been analysed using gas chromatography (GC). The oils of all baobab species contain three major fatty acids: palmitic, oleic and linoleic acids. They also contain specific fatty acids such as cyclopropenic and cyclopropanic acids, which are characteristic of the Malvaceae family seed oils. It was possible to distinguish three sections through principal components analysis using the eleven fatty acids identified by GC. The Adansonia section contains high rates of oleic acid (± 35%), the Brevitubae section is rich in palmitic acid (± 42%) and the Longitubae section contains high levels of dihydrosterulic acid (± 5%). The oil fatty acid composition, however, does not enable a definitive characterization of profiles according to species. The fatty acid composition is not significantly influenced by the geographical, soil and climate conditions of the collection sites.

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Fatty Acid Composition of Baobab Seed and Its Relationship with the Genus Adansonia Taxonomy

Gaylor

Tsy

Randriamiarinarivo

et al. 2017

Chemistry & Biodiversity

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“…Palmitic acid (16:0) is often used in the cosmetic industry owing to its effect on softening the skin and restoring and moisturizing the epidermis (Komane et al, 2017). Palmitoleic acid (16:1) belongs to the omega‐7 PUFA family, which is a component of skin lipids and stimulates regenerative processes in the epidermis and wound healing (Zielinska and Nowak, 2017).…”

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Comparative Analysis of Essential Bioactive Components of Oils Originating from Three Chinese Loess Plateau Wild Crops

Yuan

Hu²,

Yin³

et al. 2021

J Americ Oil Chem Soc

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The ability of soil and water conservation crops to resist stress is closely related to their abundance of lipid‐soluble chemical components. This study systematically evaluated the composition and content of fatty acids, sterols, squalene, and tocopherol in oils extracted from three varieties of crops growing on the Chinese Loess Plateau with extreme environments. The dominant fatty acids in the wild seabuckthorn pulp oil were oleic acid (29.73%), palmitic acid (26.83%), and palmitoleic acid (25.71%), and those in wild seabuckthorn seed oil were linoleic acid (42.29%), α‐linolenic acid (20.65%), and oleic acid (18.94%). The most abundant fatty acids in wild elaeagnusmollis seed oil were oleic acid (43.29%), linoleic acid (35.93%), and α‐linolenic acid (7.00%). Wild yellowhorn seed oil was rich in linoleic acid (34.14%), oleic acid (25.99%), and erucic acid (8.76%). Seabuckthorn seed oil had the highest levels of total sterols (619.33 mg/100 g), followed by seabuckthorn pulp oil (606.10 mg/100 g), yellowhorn seed oil (249.46 mg/100 g), and elaeagnusmollis seed oil (224.01 mg/100 g). However, the squalene content was highest in elaeagnusmollis seed oil (68.06 mg/100 g) and similarly low in yellowhorn seed oil (9.81 mg/100 g), seabuckthorn pulp oil (4.62 mg/100 g) and seabuckthorn seed oil (4.71 mg/100 g). In addition, seabuckthorn pulp oil had the highest tocopherol content (179.92 mg/100 g), followed by seabuckthorn seed oil (130.57 mg/100 g), elaeagnusmollis seed oil (85.87 mg/100 g), and yellowhorn seed oil (45.44 mg/100 g). This study provides favorable data supporting biomass resource utilization and organic synthesis of bioactive raw chemical composition.

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“…Bigger seeds may be preferred especially when the seed is consumed as a whole nut and may also result in higher oil content. Oil content of the baobab seed is increasingly becoming important in many sectors including, cosmetics, pharmaceutical and food (Komane et al, 2017). Seed traits are therefore essential to study with the aim of domesticating baobab.…”

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Studies on baobab diversity, seed germination and early growth

Egbadzor

2020

South African Journal of Botany

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The diversity in baobab was studied on 75 trees located at Adaklu District and Ho and Hohoe Municipalities. Thirteen morphological traits were used in the characterisation based on Bioversity descriptors for baobab. GenStat edition 12 was used to analyse the diversity as well as germination and growth data. Group average hierarchical clustering with Jaccard similarity coefficient discriminated among most of the baobab trees. Clustering was not based on location although few trees that were not discriminated were from the same communities. The clustering can be used in selecting trees for further studies and domestication. Germination tests were conducted with soaked, boiled and sulphuric acid treated seeds. Only the sulphuric acid treated seeds had germination significantly higher than the control. More studies should be done to find easier way of breaking seed dormancy of baobab. There were significant differences in 100 seed weight, seed length and thickness among seeds from three different trees. However, there were no significant difference in seed width of the same sample. Seed size traits should be considered in selecting baobab for domestication because of the high variability revealed.Observation on seedling growth revealed less than 10 leaves in the first month and increased to about 20 in the fourth month. Growth in girth was 5mm and 8mm in the first and fourth .

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Beauty in Baobab: a pilot study of the safety and efficacy of Adansonia digitata seed oil

Cited by 29 publications

References 20 publications

Fatty Acid Composition of Baobab Seed and Its Relationship with the Genus Adansonia Taxonomy

Fatty Acid Composition of Baobab Seed and Its Relationship with the Genus Adansonia Taxonomy

Comparative Analysis of Essential Bioactive Components of Oils Originating from Three Chinese Loess Plateau Wild Crops

Studies on baobab diversity, seed germination and early growth

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