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. 2023 Mar 7;28(6):2457.
doi: 10.3390/molecules28062457.

Bioactives from Crude Rice Bran Oils Extracted Using Green Technology

Donporn Wongwaiwech  1 , Sudthida Kamchonemenukool  2 , Chi-Tang Ho  3 , Shiming Li  4 , Nutthaporn Majai  2 , Tepsuda Rungrat  5 , Kawee Sujipuli  5 , Min-Hsiung Pan  6 , Monthana Weerawatanakorn  2
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Bioactives from Crude Rice Bran Oils Extracted Using Green Technology

Donporn Wongwaiwech et al. Molecules. .

Abstract

Crude rice bran oils from different rice cultivars and extraction methods bear different contents of nutraceuticals. The health benefits of lowering cholesterol activity of rice bran oil being confirmed by many reports are partly attributed to non-nutrient nutraceuticals, especially γ-oryzanol, phytosterols, and policosanols. As the world has been facing the global warming crisis, green extraction technology is gaining attention from many sectors. The current study aims to compare the nutraceutical composition with respect to γ-oryzanol, phytosterol, and policosanol content as well as the antioxidant properties of crude rice bran oils extracted from white and red rice bran using three green technologies, comparing with conventional hexane extraction. The data show that the traditional solvent extraction gave the highest oil yield percentage (26%), but it was not significantly different from subcritical liquefied dimethyl ether extraction (24.6%). Subcritical liquefied dimethyl ether extraction gave higher oil yield than supercritical CO2 extraction (15.5-16.2%). The crude rice bran oil extracted using subcritical liquefied dimethyl ether extraction produced the highest total phenolic contents and antioxidant activities. The highest γ-oryzanol content of the crude rice bran oil was found in oil extracted by conventional cold press (1370.43 mg/100 g). The γ-oryzanol content of the oil obtained via subcritical liquefied dimethyl ether extraction was high (1213.64 mg/100 g) compared with supercritical CO2 extraction. The red rice bran yielded the crude rice bran oil with the highest total phytosterol content compared with the white bran, and the oil from red rice bran extracted with subcritical liquefied dimethyl ether generated the highest total phytosterol content (1784.17 mg/100 g). The highest policosanol content (274.40 mg/100 g) was also found in oil obtained via subcritical liquefied dimethyl ether extraction.

Keywords: oryzanol; phytosterol; policosanol; subcritical extraction; supercritical extraction.

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The rice bran oil extracted with hexane extraction (HE), cold-pressed extraction (CPE), supercritical fluid carbon dioxide extraction (SF-CO2), and subcritical liquefied DME extraction (SUBLDME).
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The γ-oryzanol contents of crude rice bran oil extracted using various extraction methods.
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Supercritical fluid carbon dioxide extraction (SF-CO2) (a); subcritical liquified dimethyl ether extraction (SULDME) (b).
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