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What are the benefits and functions of rice bran oil?
The nutritional value of rice bran oil is relatively high, which can appropriately improve cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and reduce blood lipid. Rice bran oil tastes better to human skin and promotes blood circulation. People with endocrine disorders can use rice bran oil to regulate human endocrine. Many people use rice bran oil as cooking oil, which is healthier to eat. Don't worry, many people don't know rice bran oil yet. Let's see what rice bran oil does.

1. Nutritional value of rice bran oil

1. Rice bran oil has high nutritional value. In developed countries such as Europe, America, South Korea and Japan, it is a healthy and nutritious oil with the same name as olive oil, which is deeply loved by people with hyperlipidemia and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. It has long been a daily healthy edible oil for western families.

2. China is rich in raw material resources of rice bran oil, but the production and consumption of rice bran oil are still in the initial stage, with an annual output of less than 6.5438+0.2 million tons. Experts suggest speeding up the development of rice bran oil so that this healthy and nutritious oil can enter people's daily life as soon as possible. High nutritional value.

Two. composition

1. Jiang Xinzheng, a senior engineer at the Oil Engineering Technology Research Center of the State Grain Administration, told this reporter that rice bran oil is an edible oil with high nutritional value. The composition of rice bran is oil 15%~22%, which is equivalent to the oil content of soybean. Protein 12%~ 16%, nitrogen-free extract 33%~53%, moisture 7%~ 14%, ash 8% ~ 65438+.

2. Rice is brown rice except rice husk, which consists of rice bran layer, embryo and endosperm, in which rice bran layer accounts for about 7.5% of the total weight of brown rice and embryo accounts for about 2.5%. The rice bran layer consists of pericarp, seed coat, endosperm and aleurone layer. The oil in brown rice is mainly concentrated in aleurone layer and rice bran layer of embryo, especially in embryo.

3. Rice bran oil is a kind of nutrient-rich vegetable oil, and the absorption rate after eating is over 90%. Fatty acid composition, vitamin E, sterol, oryzanol, etc. Rice bran oil is beneficial to human absorption, and has the beneficial effects of removing cholesterol from blood, reducing blood lipid and promoting human growth and development, so rice bran oil is recognized as a nutritious and healthy oil at home and abroad. At the same time, rice bran oil is suitable for frying because of its good stability, and can also be used to make margarine, shortening and high-grade nutritional oil.

4. Rice bran oil contains about 38% linoleic acid and 42% oleic acid, and the ratio of linoleic acid to oleic acid is about1:1. From the point of view of modern nutrition, this proportion of oil has high nutritional value.