STUDIES ON FATS, OILS, AND FATTY ACIDS 223 



Table 13 (continued) 



» Coefficients of digestibility 



M.p., Guinea 

 Fat fed °C. pig* Rat Rabbit Sheep Dog 



Peanut oil, hydrogenated (blended ) 39 92 . 6' 



39 91.4' 



Perilla oil (hydrogenated) 67.5 6 fr 



Rapeseed oil — — 82 p 



Salmon oil 94.0 — 



Sardine oil 98.3 s 



Shortening A 98. 6« 



Shortening B 99. 6 e 



Soybean oil 94.5 98. 5 C 



98.3 d 



Tobacco-seed oil 97 . W 



Tropical fats' — 



Aceituna, unrefined" 93 . 5 



Cacao volador" — 96 . 9 



Corozo 1 " 97.0 



Morro x 96 . 4 



Sapayulo" 92.2 



Tambor* 94 . 5 



a Soaps were included in the determination in all reports except in references b, e, g, h, 

 and s. 



b C. M. McCay and H. Paul, ./. Nutrition, 15, 377-382 (1938), except where noted 

 otherwise. 



c R. Hoagland and G. G. Snider, ./. Nutrition, 25, 295-302 (1943). Fat fed at 5% 

 level. 



d Reference c but fat fed at 15% level. 



* H. Steenbock, M. H. Irwin, and J. Weber, ./. Nutrition, 12, 103-111 (1936). 



f K. E. Rapp, J. T. Skinner, and J. S. McHargue, J. Nutrition, 31, 273-282 (1946). 

 Average of experiments in which fat was fed at 5, 15, or 30%. 

 « W. C. Stewart and R. G. Sinclair, Arch. Bioehem,, 8, 7-11 (1945). 

 h H. Paul and C. M. McCav, Arch. Bioehem., 1, 247-258 (1942). 



* E. W. Rockwood and P. B. Sivickes, /. Am. Med. Assoc, 71, 1649-1650 (1918). 



> E. J. Severance, The Digestibility of Some Peanut Oils in the Rat. Thesis, Univ. 

 So. Calif., Dept. Bioehem. Nutrit,, Jan.,' 1952. 



k H. M. Evans and S. Lepkovskv, J. Biol Chem., 96, 165-177 (1932). 



1 V. Augur, H. S. Rollman, and H. J. Deuel, Jr., J. Nutrition, S3, 177-186 (1947). 



■ M. E. Crockett and H. J. Deuel, Jr., ./. Nutrition, 33, 187-194 (1947). 



"L. Arnschink, Z. Biol., 26 (n.s. 8), 434-451 (1890). 



C. E. Calbert, S. M. Greenberg, G. Kryder, and H. J. Deuel, Jr., Food Research, 16, 

 294-305(1951). 



"H. J. Deuel, Jr., A. L. S. Cheng, and M. G. Morehouse, /. Nutrition, 35, 295-300 

 (1948). 



« R. Hoagland and G. G. Snider, /. Nutrition, 26, 219-225 (1943). 



r R. P. Cook and R. O. Thomson, Quart. J. Exptl. Physiol., 36, 61-74 (1951). Fed at 

 2.7 and 3.0 g. /day. 



* S. Lassen, E. K. Bacon, and H. J. Dunn, Arch. Bioehem., 23, 1-7 (1949). 



' R. L. Squibb, H. T. Love, and M. K. Wyld, J. Nutrition, U, 547-552 (1951). 

 u Simaruba glauca (paradise-tree). " Virola guatemalensis (virola). 

 w Orbignya cohune (cohune palm). * Crescentia alata (cross-leaf calabash tree). 

 " Calocarpum mammosum. (sapota) (sapote). * Otnphalea oleifera (navel spurge). 



