{"id":151,"date":"2023-12-03T12:36:45","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T12:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mestrado.net\/?page_id=151"},"modified":"2023-12-03T13:32:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T13:32:09","slug":"sunflower-oil","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mestrado.net\/?page_id=151","title":{"rendered":"Sunflower oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-72 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/mestrado.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/oil-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"348\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mestrado.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/oil-1.png 348w, https:\/\/mestrado.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/oil-1-205x300.png 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 348px) 100vw, 348px\" \/>Sunflower oil<\/strong> is the non-volatile oil pressed from the seeds of the sunflower (Helianthus annuus). Sunflower oil is commonly used in food as a frying oil, and in cosmetic formulations as an emollient.<\/p>\n<p>Sunflower oil is primarily composed of linoleic acid, a polyunsaturated fat, and oleic acid, a monounsaturated fat. Through selective breeding and manufacturing processes, oils of differing proportions of the fatty acids are produced. The expressed oil has a neutral taste profile. The oil contains a large amount of vitamin E.<\/p>\n<p>As of 2023, Ukraine was the world&#8217;s largest producer of sunflower oil. The Russian invasion of Ukraine that began in 2022 caused global prices of sunflower oil to increase by as much as 58% in a single month in 2022.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Composition<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sunflower oil is mainly triglycerides (fats), typically derived from the fatty acids linoleic acid and oleic acid<br \/>\nSunflower oil is mainly a triglyceride. The British Pharmacopoeia lists the following profile:<\/p>\n<p>Palmitic acid (saturated): 5%<br \/>\nStearic acid (saturated): 6%<br \/>\nOleic acid (monounsaturated omega-9): 30%<br \/>\nLinoleic acid (polyunsaturated omega-6): 59%<br \/>\nFour types of sunflower oils with differing concentrations of fatty acids are produced through plant breeding and industrial processing: high-linoleic, high-oleic, mid-oleic, and high-stearic combined with high-oleic.<\/p>\n<p>High-linoleic, 69% linoleic acid<br \/>\nHigh-oleic, 82% oleic acid<br \/>\nMid-oleic, 65% oleic acid<br \/>\nHigh-stearic with high-oleic, 18% stearic acid and 72% oleic acid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunflower oil is the non-volatile oil pressed from the seeds of the sunflower (Helianthus annuus). Sunflower oil is commonly used in food as a frying oil, and in cosmetic formulations as an emollient. Sunflower oil is primarily composed of linoleic acid, a polyunsaturated fat, and oleic acid, a monounsaturated fat. Through selective breeding and manufacturing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72,"parent":13,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/template_page-full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-151","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mestrado.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mestrado.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mestrado.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mestrado.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mestrado.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mestrado.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"https:\/\/mestrado.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151\/revisions\/152"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mestrado.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mestrado.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mestrado.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}