Nutritional composition, extraction, and utilization of wheat germ oil: A review

• Main Authors: Ghafoor, Kashif, Musa Ozcan, Mehmet, Al-Juhaimi, Fahad, Babiker, Elfadil E., Sarker, Md. Zaidul Islam, Mohamed Ahmed, Isam A., Ahmed, Mohammed Asif
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Wiley-VCH Verla 2017
• Subjects: Q Science (General)
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/55716/1/Kashif-Review-Paper-EJLST.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/55716/2/Nutritional%20composition%2C%20extraction%2C%20and%20utilization%20of%20wheat%20germ%20oil%20A%20review.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/55716/; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dac.3332/abstract

Wheat germ is a by-product of wheat milling from which wheat germ oil (WGO) can be obtained using different techniques. For a better quality WGO, techniques such supercritical fluid fractionation, molecular distillation, and other innovative methods can be adopted. WGO is composed of nonpolar lipids...