Poster or Presentation Title
Advisor(s)
Solongo.D
Batkhishig.J
Subjects
Biology
Abstract
Background: Traditionally, Mongolians used sheep tail fat for infants’ food and massage medication. Nowadays, the fat from sheep tail is industrially processed and added to the beauty and cosmetic products. But it remains widely unknown worldwide. This study aims to find out its chemical components and to identify its assets.
Procedure and results: We cut the sheep tail fat into three main pieces with 1mm in width and heated in a water bath to separate the liquid lipid. After this, we titrated the lipid with potassium hydroxide solution and measured the saturated and unsaturated fatty acid of sheep tail fat with iodine. Also, we used chromatography for further experiments and we could detect that saturated acids such as palmitic and stearic acids were 1.59-5.32 percent more on the front core part than the other two parts. Unsaturated acids were 4.92-9.04 percent more on the tip of the sheep tail fat.
Fatty acids with 2 double bonds (biencarboxylic acids), fatty acids with a single, double bond (monocarboxylic acids) and saturated fatty acids in the sheep tail fat were each respectively 3.85:38.5:57.65 percent or a ratio of 0.4:4:6. This shows that sheep tail fat is suitable to use in food.
Conclusion: With the information on how to separate fat from sheep tail, people can make their own nourishing cream at home or use in their nutrition as it contains no toxins. Moreover, sheep’s tail fat turns out to be a rare product which contains a wide range of valuable organic compounds.
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Background: Traditionally, Mongolians used sheep tail fat for infants’ food and massage medication. Nowadays, the fat from sheep tail is industrially processed and added to the beauty and cosmetic products. But it remains widely unknown worldwide. This study aims to find out its chemical components and to identify its assets.
Procedure and results: We cut the sheep tail fat into three main pieces with 1mm in width and heated in a water bath to separate the liquid lipid. After this, we titrated the lipid with potassium hydroxide solution and measured the saturated and unsaturated fatty acid of sheep tail fat with iodine. Also, we used chromatography for further experiments and we could detect that saturated acids such as palmitic and stearic acids were 1.59-5.32 percent more on the front core part than the other two parts. Unsaturated acids were 4.92-9.04 percent more on the tip of the sheep tail fat.
Fatty acids with 2 double bonds (biencarboxylic acids), fatty acids with a single, double bond (monocarboxylic acids) and saturated fatty acids in the sheep tail fat were each respectively 3.85:38.5:57.65 percent or a ratio of 0.4:4:6. This shows that sheep tail fat is suitable to use in food.
Conclusion: With the information on how to separate fat from sheep tail, people can make their own nourishing cream at home or use in their nutrition as it contains no toxins. Moreover, sheep’s tail fat turns out to be a rare product which contains a wide range of valuable organic compounds.