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Journal of Nutrition Vol. 35 No. 3 March 1948, pp. 295-300
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The Digestibility of Rape-Seed Oil in the Rat1

Harry J. Deuel, Jr., Amber L. S. Cheng and Margaret G. Morehouse

Department of Biochemistry and Nutrition, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

Rape-seed oil has been found to have the lowest coefficient of digestibility of any fat, liquid at ordinary temperature, which has been investigated on rats. Crude rape-seed oil was digested to the extent of only 77% while the refined oil gave an average value of 82%. This apparently cannot be traced to a failure of lipolysis but is believed to be related to the poor absorbability of the erucic acid fraction.

1 This was aided by a research grant from Swift and Co.

Manuscript received 12 November 1947.




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