Santan is a Malay term for coconut milk. Santan is derived from the flesh of old coconuts. In recent years, there is high demand for coconut santan due to our increasing population and a higher standard of living among domestic consumers who prefer tastier food. At the same time, there is also high demand for […]

The importance of dry fractionation as one of the most widely practiced modification processes for palm oil and its products cannot be denied. For decades, the versatility of palm oil has been expanded and enhanced using this technique which is fully reversible, inexpensive and environmentalfriendly. Palm oil not only can be fractionated using a single […]

Tocotrienol is a natural form of vitamin E found abundantly in palm oil (Nesaretnam et al., 1998). Palm tocotrienol extracted from palm oil contains approximately 70% of the tocotrienol-rich fraction (TRF) and 30% of tocopherol (Gapor, 1995, Choo et al., 1997, Nesaretnam et al., 2000). Tocotrienols can also be found in cereal grains such as […]

Inter-laboratory comparison is one of the quality control procedures recommended by the Laboratory Accreditation Scheme of Malaysia (SAMM) MS ISO/IEC 17025:2005 (Clause 5.9.1) to monitor the validity of tests offered as services to clients. It provides one of the most expedient means of assessing the bias of one laboratory’s testing relative to other laboratories in […]

Oleochemicals are chemicals derived from oils and fats, however, the term ‘natural oleochemicals’ often refers to oleochemicals derived from vegetable and animal oils and fats to differentiate them from ‘synthetic oleochemicals’, which are derived from petroleum. Oils/fats are triglycerides formed from one molecule of glycerol and three molecules of fatty acids. The reverse of this […]