| Palm vitamin E tocotrienols significantly help increase | | | | different isometric forms of vitamin E. |
| immunity or to inhibit disease in our bodies. Vitamin E | | | | Apart from palm oil, rice bran, wheat germ and barley |
| was first isolated and recognized nearly 60 years ago. | | | | germ oils are good sources of the tocotrienols. |
| It is fat soluble, widely distributed in foods and can | | | | Benefits of Vitamin E Palm Tocotrienols |
| even be stored in our bodies. As a result, vitamin E | | | | Tocotrienols have a chemical structure that is slightly |
| deficiency rarely occurs in mammals. It is present in all | | | | different from the tocopherols. |
| our tissues and cells and protects against the ravages | | | | Research has already determined that this structural |
| of oxidative damage by free radicals formed in our | | | | difference, while allow it to perform all the classic |
| body. It also plays an important role in the regulation | | | | functions of vitamin E, additionally confers important |
| of our immune system. In recent times, vitamin E has | | | | biological and physiological properties that are not |
| been discovered playing its role as an inhibitor of cell | | | | noticeable in tocopherols. |
| proliferation. | | | | Good manufacturing practice ensures that a |
| Vitamin E occurs in substantial amounts in oils and | | | | substantial amount of palm vitamin E is retained in |
| fats. Generally, the higher the polyunsaturated fatty | | | | palm olein, commonly used as cooking oil in our Asian |
| acid content of oil, the higher the vitamin E | | | | cooking. When crude palm oil is refined, a portion of |
| requirement. An average ratio of vitamin E to | | | | its vitamin E is concentrated as a by-product, called |
| polyunsaturated fatty acids of about 0.6 mg/g is | | | | palm fatty acid distillate (PFAD). |
| highly desirable. | | | | Now, innovative technologies allow the recovery of |
| Vitamin E mostly occurs as alpha, gamma, and delta | | | | this palm vitamin E as a concentrate that contains |
| tocopherol. The composition of vitamin E in palm oil is, | | | | about 30% tocopherols and 70% tocotrienols. Palm |
| however, quite different. Only about 30% of its | | | | vitamin E is now commercially available in Malaysia and |
| composition is tocopherol, whereas the rest occur as | | | | other regions. |
| tocotrienols (alpha, gamma and delta) which are again | | | | |