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The modification of a sunflower oil used for 75 repeated deep-fat fryings of potatoes, with a fast turnover of fresh oil during frying, was evaluated by measuring the total polar components isolated by column chromatography. The total polar components increased rapidly during the first 20 fryings from 5.09±0.21 (mean±SD) mg/100 mg unused oil to 15.99±0.40, followed by minor but also significant changes until the thirtieth frying (17.99±0.41 mg/100 mg oil). The level did not increase further with continued frying. Further, the polar fraction was examined by high-performance size-exclusion chromatography. Triglyceride polymers increased from 0.10±0.01 mg/100 mg unused oil to 1.65±0.13 and 3.44±0.17 mg/100 mg oil at the twentieth and seventy-fifth fryings, respectively. Triglyceride dimers also increased significantly from 0.75±0.12 mg/100 mg unused oil to 6.25±0.28 (mg/100 mg oil) at the twentieth frying and to 7.09±0.31 mg/100 mg oil at the thirtieth frying, with no further significant changes. Oxidized triglycerides also significantly increased, but at the twentieth frying reached a near-steady state of 6.26 mg/100 mg oil. Diglycerides and free fatty acid levels, related to hydrolytic alteration, did not increase with continued fryings. The results indicate that during deep-fat frying of potatoes with fast turnover of fresh sunflower oil, more thermoxidative than hydrolytic processes take place. A dramatic leap of total polar content and a change of compounds related to thermoxidative alteration of the oil were found during the first twenty fryings, followed by minor changes and by a tendency to reach a near-steady state throughout the successive fryings.
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Cuesta, C., Sánchez-Muniz, F.J., Garrido-Polonio, C. et al. Thermoxidative and hydrolytic changes in sunflower oil used in fryings with a fast turnover of fresh oil. J Am Oil Chem Soc 70, 1069–1073 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02632144
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