FACTORS ALTERING NUTRITIONAL VALUE 901 



Table 6 



The Tocopherol Content of Representative Vegetable 



Fats and Oils and op Hydrogenated Vegetable Fats'* 



Tocopherol in mg./lOO g. oil 



Vegetable fat or oil Refer- 



or hydrogenated fats Total a ^ y d ence 



37. 



22 



98" 



107 



" ]Mo.st of the data are from W. Lange, J. Aiti. Oil CheniitiUi' Soc, 27 , 414-422 (1950j. 



^ A. E. Baile}', Industrial Oil and Fat Products, Interscience, New Vork, 1945, p. 32; 

 cf. also H. J. Deuel, Jr., in A. E. Bailev, Cottonseed and Cottonseed Products, Interscience, 

 New York and London, 1948, pp. 763-811. 



•= Sum of 7- and 5-tocopherol. 



<» P. L. Harris, M. L. Quaife, and W. J. Swanson, ./. yutrition, 40, 367-381 (1950). 



« F. W. Qua('kenl)U.sh, H. L. Gottlieb, and H. Steenbock, lud. Enq. Chem., SS, 1276- 

 1278(1941). 



/ A. ICmmerie and C. Kiigel, Z. Vitaminforsch, IS, 259-266 (1943). 



" M. L. Quaife, J. Biol. Chem., 175, 605-617 (1948). 



'' Procter and Gaml)le un])ubli.'<hed data eitiid bv W. Lange. (see footnote "). 



•■ G. S. Fisher, hid. Eng. Chem., Anal. Ed., 17, 224-227 (1945). 



'■ M. Kofler, Helv. Chim. Acta, 26, 2166-2176 (1943). 



* L. Weisler, C. D. Robeson, and J. G. Baxter, Anal. Chem., 19, 906-909 (1947). 



' P. Karrer and H. Keller, Helv. Chim. Acta, 21, 1161-1169 (1938). 



