Power of the Seed

Power of the Seed book correction, the lower diagram on page 24 of the paper version is not accurate! In the kindle version the diagram is early on in Chapter 2, Lipid Chemistry 101. The full diagram of a triglyceride is accurately portrayed below.

Post publication of Power of the Seed the issue of vitamin C in oils was brought to my attention and I realized that I hadn’t researched deeply enough into the subject before publishing. Several suppliers were claiming that the fruits high in vitamin C that produced oils, the vitamin carried over into the oil.

Therefore I continue to research into this subject. The following are the comments I’ve made in the course Lipids Decoded on the ways that the vitamin could be available, or not…

I’ve witnessed spirited discussions about the presence, or lack of a presence of vitamin C in the lipid oils. Ascorbic acid, the synthetic form of vitamin C is water soluble and is also highly reactive oxidizing easily.

There are synthetic lipid compatible forms of vitamin C like ascorbyl palmitate, magnesium ascorbyl phosphate (MAP), and others.

The argument is, because vitamin C is water soluble there can be none present in lipid oils. However, other water soluble compounds like tannins and cyan pigments are present in oils. Perhaps it is possible for Nature in her infinite wisdom and ability, to create a vitamin C type action, if not the vitamin itself in oils from seeds from fruit high in the vitamin.

This is a continuing discussion that is not yet finished …