Abstract
Butter oil is derived from butter and constitutes of triglycerides along with small amounts of other lipids and fat-soluble components. Food grade lipids can be easily sourced from butter oil which finds a great potential in various ancient, modern as well as emerging applications. Due to almost “all fat” content, butter oil is not soluble in water, but it can be emulsified or combined with other components to enhance its applicability. In order to develop and optimize various applications, it is vital to identify self-assembled nanostructures formed within the butter oil. This report involves nanostructural studies by small (SAXS) and wide (WAXS) angle X-ray scattering and microstructural analysis of butter and butter oil using microscopic techniques. Both butter and butter oil display various polymorphs, detected by WAXS, but in general, the self-assembled nanostructure was identified to be a lamellar phase with the lattice parameter of about 41.8 Å. Physicochemical properties of butter oil, namely solubility, density, thermal behavior, functional groups and molecular structure elucidation also contribute to this report.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Advances in Biomembranes and Lipid Self-Assembly |
Editors | Aleš Iglič, Michael Rappolt, Patricia Losada-Pérez |
Publisher | Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. |
Pages | 1-23 |
Number of pages | 23 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780323985963 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 31 Jan 2022 |
Publication series
Name | Advances in Biomembranes and Lipid Self-Assembly |
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Volume | 36 |
ISSN (Print) | 2451-9634 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We would like to thank a visiting student Mr Younes Turki (Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, France) and a project student Ms Amelia Smith (UCLan) for preliminary work and Mr James Donnelly and Mr Patric Cookson for technical support. We acknowledge Mr Nick Spencer (University of Reading) for support on X-ray scattering work.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Elsevier Inc.
Keywords
- Anhydrous milk fat
- Butter
- Butter oil
- Density
- Ghee
- Lipid nanostructures
- NMR spectroscopy
- Small-angle X-ray scattering
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Biophysics
- Bioengineering
- Biochemistry