Table 9 



Average Coefficients of Digestibility of Different Vegetable Fats and Oil; 



in Human Subjects" 



Av. Coeff. 



Number of daily fat of 



Fat or oil expts. intake, g. digestibility 



Almond* 4 70 97.1 



Apricot kernel' 4 70 98.4 



Avocado* 3 100 87.8 



Black walnut* 4 56 97.5 



Brazil nut 6 3 81 96.3 



Butternut 6 3 43 95.4 



Charlock' 4 60 98.9 



Cherry kernel* 4 57 98.0 



Cocoa butter/ 11 51 94.9 



Coconut'-" 12 65 97.9,88.7 



Cohune palm* 4 52 99. 1 



Corn*-" 7 82 96.9 



Cottonseed/ 12 86 97.8 



Cottonseed* 8 67 96.5 



Cupuassii* 4 41 94.1 



English walnut 6 3 78 97.6 



Hempseed* 3 57 98.5 



Hickory nut 6 4 95 99.3 



Japanese mustard seed e 3 79 98 . 8 



Java almond*' 2 60 97.0 



Melon seed' 3 41 98.2 



Olive/ 10 73 97.8 



Palm kernel* 3 100 98.0 



Peach kernel' 3 62 96.6 



Peanut/ 5 98 98.3 



Pecan 6 4 104 96.8 



Poppyseed* 7 50 96.3 



Pumpkin seed* 2 75 98. 2 



Rapeseed' 4 82 98.9 



Rapeseed* 8 60 99.0 



Sesame 7 5 90 98.0 



Soybean**.... 7 80 97.5,93.7 



Sunflowerseed* 4 90 96.5 



Teaseed 1 " 1 50 91.2 



Tomato seed' 3 57 95.8 



Watermelon seed 1 ' 3 30 94 . 8 



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