Revista de Pesquisa Científica da Nutrição

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Non-Conventional Seed Oils: An Innovative Strategy to Boost Human Health

Hamna Saleem

Non-conventional seed oils are valuable due to their unique constituents that exhibit health-promoting perspectives as functional ingredients. Key factor responsible for the ignorance of these oils is the lack of consumer awareness about their functional and nutraceutical aspects. Advancement in science and technology has revealed their role in daily life via revealing their health maintaining and disease preventing outcomes. Non-conventional seed oils include coriander seed oil, rice bran oil, sesame seed oil, flaxseed oil, hempseed oil, black cumin seed oil, cottonseed oil, peanut oil, pomegranate seed oil, avocado oil and many more. These Seed oils have symbolic role in boosting one’s health i.e. black cumin oil is rich in thymoquinone that offers strong antifungal activity whereas subcutaneous injection of rice bran oil has neuroendocrinological effect. Sesame seed oil has sesamin and sesamolin that has been proven for the treatment of alzheimer and parkinson’s disease. Coriander seed oil and flaxseed oil have anti-anxiety and anti-tumor activity respectively. Likewise, hempseed oil is advantageous due to presence of anti-hypercholesteromic component beta-sitosterol. Hence, current review focuses on all these no conventional seed oils contribute their own to improve the consumer life style by promising the role of fats and oils in our daily life.