• How did Styrian pumpkin seeds become a specialty oil?
  • A single mutation occurred only in the 19th century and led to dark green seeds with stunted outer hulls. This mutation facilitated the production of Styrian pumpkin seed oil that became a regional specialty oil in the south-eastern part of Europe during the last few decades.
  • What is the main knowledge of Pumpkin Seed Oil (PSO)?
  • Policies and ethics This chapter summarizes the main knowledge of pumpkin seed oil (PSO) such as cultivation conditions, production technology, physicochemical properties, quality control parameters and effects on health. PSO is obtained from pumpkins belong to the Cucurbitaceae family,…
  • Where does pumpkin oil come from?
  • It has been produced in Slovenia, Austria, and Hungary and used as cooking oil in many parts in Africa and the Middle East. The oil content is around 50% and it can be obtained from pumpkin seeds with or without husks using solvent extraction, supercritical CO 2 or cold pressed methods.
  • How to improve the yield of pumpkin seeds based on selenomethionin?
  • oil production to improve the yield . The physiologically pumpkin seeds. However, since it was mainly incorporated in selenomethionin, it is excluded from the oil fraction . In concentrations between 2 and 3 mg/kg oil . 2.5-fold enriched as compared to the seeds . In contrast to (Fig. 2).
  • What is pumpkin seed oil?
  • It is dichromatic, viscous oil that has been documented for its strong antioxidant activity (Stevenson et al. 2007). Moreover, pumpkin seed oil (PSO) has the most remarkable health benefits (Nishimura et al. 2014), and thus it requires effective extraction techniques in order to guarantee a high-quality PSO.
  • Is Styrian pumpkin seed oil a fraud?
  • optical quality control of Styrian pumpkin seed oils (Fig. 1B). . oil, is regarded as professional fraud. Therefore, analytical tinuously being improved. Styrian pumpkin seed oil does not sign of adulteration with the cheaper rapeseed oil .