ESTIMATION OF STEROLS CONTENT IN EDIBLE OIL AND GHEE SAMPLES

The present investigation was carried out for the estimation of sterols in marketed edible oil and ghee samples. Seven samples of oils and Ghees were subjected for sterol estimation. The samples include Liberty Chanda (vanaspati ghee), Gemini (vanaspati ghee), Suryafit (sunflower oil), Liberty Tower (groundnut oil), Ruchies Nutri gold(groundnut oil), Parachute (coconut oil), and Nihar (coconut oil).The determination was done by measuring the absorbance on uv spectrophotometer using Liberman - burchard reaction. The sterol contents of Liberty Chanda and Gemini Vanaspati ghee as 27 mg/gm and 61 mg/gm respectively.whlie for Suryafit, Liberty Tower, Ruchiʹs Nutri gold, Parachute and Nihar Naturals oils found 144 mg/gm , 52 mg/gm, 63 mg/gm, 26 mg/gm and 25 mg/gm while Sunflower oil contains more amount of sterols and coconut oil have less in comparision.