The content of Phytanic and Pristanic Acids in Various Foods and Their Control by Melting Point Fractionation in Milk Fat
1. The content of Phytanic and Pristanic Acids in Various Foods
and Their Control by Melting Point Fractionation in Milk Fat
Student: Nguyen Tran Bao Chau
Principal Supervisor: Professor Satoshi Kawahara
Graduate School of Agriculture
Miyazaki, August 21, 2020
3. Milk fat is the most
complex fat in nature
with more than 400
identified fatty acids.
Minor functional fatty
acids in milk fat have
beneficial effects to
health.
Minor functional fatty acids in milk fat are
recently receive more attention
4. Bioactive
functional
fatty acids
Phytanic acid
Obtained from the enzymatic
modification of phytol in
rumen
Pristanic acid
Derived from phytanic acid
by α-oxidation.
Conjugated
linoleic acid
(CLA)
Produced when linoleic acid
undergoes oxidation reaction
in ruminant
About Phytanic acid, Pristanic acid, and CLA
5. The chemical structure
Phytanic Acid
Pristanic acid
Cis-9, trans-11
CLA
• CLA has at least 28 isomers
• Cis-9, trans-11 is predominant,
which accounting up to 90% of
total CLA in dairy products and
meat
6. Benefits of phytanic acid, pristanic acid and CLA
•- Preventive effects on
metabolic dysfunctions
•- Preventing type 2
diabetes
•- Contribute to preclude
breast, colon and other
cancers
•- Immunomodulatory
effects
Phytanic acid
Pristanic acid
Offer health benefits
concerning:
- Cardiovascular disease
- Cancer
- Obesity
- immune system
CLA
7. Experiment I:
Determine the
content of
Phytanic acid,
Pristanic acid
and CLA
Cheese
Natural
cheese
Processed
cheese
Other
products
Butter
Cream
Dairy cream
Non-dairy
cream
Oil
9. Sum of pristanic acid, phytanic acid, CLA
concentration in processed and natural cheeses
Sample
Pristanic acid Phytanic acid CLA 9c 11t
Sum of all natural
chesses
110.8-215
165
113.8-287.6
199.4
241.9-653
331.8
Sum of all
processed cheeses
145-210.6
156.9
217.3-246.8
228.5
229.1-741
608.9
• In all samples, only 9c 11t CLA
was observed.
• Other minor isomers were not
detected.
10. Concentrations (mg/100 g lipids) of phytanic acid, pristanic
acid, and CLA in natural cheeses and processed cheeses
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
Netherlands1(Beemster)
Netherlands2(Gouda)
Denmark1(Mozzarella)
Denmark2(Camembert)
NewZealand(RedChedda)
Germany(Mixcheese)
Belgium(Mozzarella)
France1(Brie)
France2(Camembert)
Japan1(Camembert)
Japan2(Mozzarella)
Japan3(Cheddar)
Japan4(Gouda)
France
Japan1
Japan2
Japan3
America
Natural cheese Processed cheese
Pristanic acid Phytanic acid CLA
Natural Cheeses Processed Cheeses
In most cases of cheese samples, the content of
phytanic acid was higher than pristanic acid
New
Zealand
America
Denmark
New
Zealand
12. The detection of Pristanic acid in Cream by Gas chromatography
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
29 30 31 32 33 34 35
Palmitic
acid
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
29 30 31 32 33 34 35
Pristanic acid
Palmitic
acid
No detection of
pristanic acid
Non-dairy cream Dairy cream
13. The detection of Phytanic acid in Cream by Gas chromatography
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
41 42 43 44 45
No detection
of phytanic
acid Heptadecanoic
acid
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
41 42 43 44 45
Phytanic
acid
Heptadecanoic
acid
Non-dairy cream Dairy cream
14. Because the content of functional fatty acids was low in
food.
The method of enrichment is needed to improve the
added value of food; therefore, the Experiment II was
conducted.
Conclusion of Experiment I
• Functional fatty acids in cheese are stable during its
manufacturing.
• Those fatty acids were not detected in non-dairy creams
and oils which are purely vegetable origin.
20. Phytanic acid and pristanic acid contents in different
melting fractions at 30˚C, 25˚C and 20˚C.
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
30℃ 25℃ 20℃ 30℃ 25℃ 20℃
Liquid fat Solid fat
PhytanicandPristanicacidscontent(mg/100glipid)
Fractionation
temperature (C )
Phytanic acid
Pristanic acid
21. CLA contents in different melting fractions at
30˚C, 25˚C and 20˚C
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
400
450
30℃ 25℃ 20℃
CLAcontent(mg/100g)
Fractionation temperature (C )
Liquid fat
Solid fat
22. Conclusion
• Temperature during fractionation affected the
concentration of functional fatty acids in milk fat.
• The application of this result could be applied in
production as well as for other further research.
(For instance, it is needed to optimize the amount of
phytanic and pristanic acids or CLA in a required
temperature to produce a food product suitable for the
demand of consumers)
23. The content of Phytanic and Pristanic Acids in Various Foods
and Their Control by Melting Point Fractionation in Milk Fat
Student: Nguyen Tran Bao Chau
Principal Supervisor: Professor Satoshi Kawahara
Graduate School of Agriculture
Miyazaki, August 21, 2020
Editor's Notes
The minor bioactive functional fatty acids I want to talk about are Phy, Pris, CLA.
In this study the content of
The experiment 1 is performed by these steps
The GC-FID data shows the result of … concentration in natural and processed cheeses. In this table I show the sum and median of the result.
. Varied types of cheeses from different countries had different phytanic and pristanic acids concentrations. Therein, cheese from Dewnkark…
It has the different because it may depend on the quality of the milk for cheese production in each country. The further cause may from the nutritional value of milk which is determined by many factors, including the cow's feed.
Opposite to the result of cheese, concentration of pris in butter was higher than phy. In this figure, CLA is higher than py and pris. Remarkably, three-fold higher than the others. Similar to the result of cheese,once again impressed. Only microorganisms occurring in the stomach of ruminants can release phytanic and pristanic acids through their enzyme activity. Therefore, this indicated that any food has vegetable origin all shown none presence of CLA, phytanic and pristanic acids.
In comparing to non-dairy cream, the figure … shows clearly the detection of pristanic acids of dairy cream by gas chromatography.
Likewise, the peak of phytanic acid in dairy cream was presented in this figure is also easy to detect, non-dairy cream presence no peak of phytanic acid.
The heat-melted milk fat was incubated for 30 minutes at a temperature of 20°C to 30°C, and then centrifuged for 15 minutes at the same temperature as during fractionation.
Based on the method of melting fractionation In previous slide. The yield of solid and liquid fat are shown in this figure. From 20 to 30 C, the liquid fraction fat increase. In the opposite, the solid fraction was shown as decreasing.
By gas chromatography data, I will show the result of this experiment. As follow the raising of temperature from 20 to 30
Similar to the figure of short-chain fatty acid, by increasing the temperature, monounsaturated fatty acids were
This figure shows ….
By raising the temperature from 20˚C to 30˚C, phytanic and pristanic acids were increasingly concentrated in the liquid fat fraction
It is suggested that by the effect of long-chain fatty acid composition on phytanic and pristanic acids induce their majority gathering at higher melting temperature fraction.
Overall, CLA was more concentrated in the liquid fat as compared to the solid fat
The melting point fractionation temperature at which CLA was shown as the most concentration was 20˚C
It can be explained by the low melting point temperature of CLA (approximately 15˚C)