caa a22 4500 465766765 CHVBK 20180323111916.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170327e19901101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02544049 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02544049 Ghafoorunissa, National Institute of Nutrition, Indian Council of Medical Research, Jamai Osmania P.O., 500 007, Hyderabad, India aut Availability of linoleic acid from cereal-pulse diets [Elektronische Daten] [Ghafoorunissa,] Cereals and pulses alone provide nearly two-thirds of the daily linoleic acid requirement in habitual Indian diets. Two-thirds of the lipids present in cereals is in bound form. To investigate to what extent the essential fatty acids (EFA) present in cereals and pulses are biologically available, weanling rats were fed rice-pulse based diets either without supplementation or supplemented with one of three vegetable oils—coconut, palmolein or groundnut oil. Plasma phospholipid fatty acid composition was used to assess the EFA status, with ratios of eicosatrienoic/arachidonic acids (20∶3n−9/20∶4n−6) above 0.2, indicating linoleic acid deficiency. In the unsupplemented group, the levels of linoleic and arachidonic acids were low as compared to the groundnut oil fed group. However, the ratio of 20∶3n−9/20∶4n−6 was less than 0.2, indicating that there was no linoleic acid deficiency. This shows that the linoleic acid present in rice and pulse may be readily available. American Oil Chemists' Society, 1985 Lipids Springer-Verlag 25/11(1990-11-01), 763-766 0024-4201 25:11<763 1990 25 11745 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02544049 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02544049 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Ghafoorunissa National Institute of Nutrition, Indian Council of Medical Research, Jamai Osmania P.O., 500 007, Hyderabad, India aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Lipids Springer-Verlag 25/11(1990-11-01), 763-766 0024-4201 25:11<763 1990 25 11745 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer