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. 2018 Oct 30;25(5):128–139. doi: 10.21315/mjms2018.25.5.12

Table 2.

Quality characteristics of different vegetable oils before, after 5th and 10th consecutive frying sessions

Types of vegetable oil

Red palm oil Yellow palm oil Corn oil



Before frying After 5th frying After 10th frying Before frying After 5th frying After 10th frying Before frying After 5th frying After 10th frying
Peroxide value, meq kg−1 oil 7.12a(0.29) 12.5b(0.19) 12.9b(0.46) 7.09a′(0.22) 12.4b′(1.16) 13b′(0.52) 8.81a″(0.13) 9.13a″(0.04) 9.53b″(0.07)
Iodine value, g of I 100 g−1 oil 92.9a(1.43) 88.2b(0.59) 83.7b(1.05) 64.8a′(0.08) 56.9b′(0.07) 54.5c′(0.42) 93.3a″(0.09) 92.8a″(0.18) 85.3b″(0.91)
p-Anisidine value 6.61a(0.33) 10.7b(0.32) 12.8c(0.16) 2.33a′(0.06) 4.17b′(0.13) 9.19c′(0.13) 3.92a″(0.07) 6.42b″(0.09) 10.7c″(0.11)
Free fatty acids, % 0.09a(0.014) 0.15b(0.006) 0.21c(0.006) 0.09a′(0.003) 0.11a′(0.003) 0.11a′(0.004) 0.12a″(0.014) 0.13a″(0.014) 0.13a″(0.021)
TOTOX value, 2 PV+AV 20.6a(1.97) 35.5b(1.55) 38.5c(0.54) 16.5a′(3.04) 28.9b′(7.89) 35.2c′(0.98) 21.8a″(4.56) 24.7b″(0.66) 29.7b″(3.63)
Fatty acid distribution, %
Saturated fatty acid 48.0a (0.47) 49.5a(0.51) 51.9b(0.26) 38.6a′(0.38) 40b′(0.07) 41.2c′(0.05) 14.3a″(0.04) 14.8b″(0.09) 15.2c″(0.15)
Monounsaturated fatty acid 33.5a(0.12) 34b(0.01) 34.3c(0.05) 35.1a′(0.13) 35.5a′(0.42) 35.9a′(0.07) 10.9a″(0.03) 11.7b″(0.10) 19c″(0.10)
Polyunsaturated fatty acid 19.9a(0.06) 16.6b(0.42) 13.5c(0.70) 25.4a′(0.78) 23.4ab′(0.18) 21.4b′(0.11) 74.1a″(0.30) 73.2a″(0.15) 66.6b″(0.33)
a–c

Values within the same row with different letters among different treatments using red palm oil are significantly different (P ≤ 0.05)

a′–c′

Values within the same row with different letters among different treatments using yellow palm oil are significantly different (P ≤ 0.05)

a″–c″

Values within the same row with different letters among different treatments using corn oil are significantly different (P ≤ 0.05)

Values are means of duplicate determination (±SD)