Prospects of safflower seeds oil in food and pharmaceutical industry

Reviewed the use of a promising oil seed, safflower as a source of raw materials for the production of edible vegetable oil and bio-active compounds for the pharmaceutical industry. The technology of fatty oil from the seeds of safflower. By gas chromatography studied the fatty acid composition of fatty seed oil, safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.), cultured in the Samara region. As a part of the total lipids found up to 10 fatty acids. Basic to the fatty acid composition of triglycerides, safflower seed oil is unsaturated linoleic acid (78.5%). The conclusions about the appropriateness of safflower oil in the food and pharmaceutical industries.