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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Fatty Acid Composition of Fulani 'Butter Oil' Made from Cow's Milk
Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, Volume 12, No. 3, Year 1999
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Description
Butter oil is the major cooking oil of the nomadic Fulani of the western Sahel of Africa. It is made from cow's milk and is consumed by all members of society, including pregnant women. In an effort to learn the reasons why the milk of Fulani women contains relatively low percentages of several nutritionally important fatty acids, linoleic acid and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) in particular, we obtained butter oil in a local market in Kurra Falls, Nigeria and analyzed it for its fatty acid composition. Fatty acid analysis by gas-liquid chromatography revealed that while the butter oil purchased in a local market in Kurra Falls in northern Nigeria contained nutritionally adequate proportions of α -linolenic acid (1.09%), it was a poor source of linoleic acid (1.74%), DHA (0.03%) and arachidonic acid (0.14%). Since butter oil is the cooking oil that is most widely used by the Fulani, the low proportions of critical polyunsaturated fatty acids it contains helps explain the low levels of linoleic acid and DHA in the milk fat of lactating Fulani women. In addition, the low content of polyunsaturated fatty acids in butter oil may ultimately have implications for the general nutrition and growth and development of infants who are exclusively breast-fed by Fulani mothers whose major dietary fat source is butter oil. © 1999 Academic Press.
Authors & Co-Authors
Glew, Robert Hayes
United States, Albuquerque
Unm School of Medicine
Okolo, Seline Nnuaku
Nigeria, Jos
University of Jos
Chuang, Lu Te
United States, Chicago
Abbott Laboratories
Huang, Yungsheng
United States, Chicago
Abbott Laboratories
VanderJagt, Dorothy Joan
United States, Albuquerque
Unm School of Medicine
Statistics
Citations: 21
Authors: 5
Affiliations: 3
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1006/jfca.1999.0825
ISSN:
08891575
Research Areas
Food Security
Maternal And Child Health
Study Locations
Nigeria
Participants Gender
Female