Cacay oil has higher palmitic acid content than butter or coconut oil (refer to Table 1). Therefore, cacay oil SHOULD be solid at room temperature, not oil Table 1. Fatty acid composition of samples.Cаcay oil (%)NDFatty acidCoconut oil (%)Cacay butter (%)Сaprylic (C8:0)0.70.2Capric (C10:0)0.13.02.1Lauric (C12:0)ND"38.431.8Myristic (C14:0)Palmitic (C16:0)Palmitoleic (C16:1)0.620.216.820.513.515.40.3NDNDStearic (C18:0)2.32.52.7Elaidic (C18:1 trans9)0.7NDNDOleic (C18:1 cis9)17.015.514.1Linoleic (C18:2 cis9,12)58.36.116.8*Not detected.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0232224.t001fatty acids present in coconut oil, with a similar amount for lauric (40.8%) and myristic(20.3%) acids. In contrast, lower saturated fatty acid content (23.6%) was found in cacay oil.Similar results were obtained by Radice et al. [6], who reported low saturated fatty acid contentin cacay oil (14.3%), with a predominance of palmitic acid (10.3%).Cacay oil, coconut oil, and cacay butter presented similar percentages of oleic acid amongthe detected monounsaturated acids. Lower results were reported by Correia et al. [24] andPérez et al. [5] in coconut oil (9.9%) and cacay oil (11.8%), respectively. Trans-fatty acid (oleicacid isomer) was found in cacay oil (0.7%), but at a content considered insignificant whencompared to Codex Alimentarius [25].Linoleic acid (w-6) was the most abundant fatty acid in cacay oil regarding polyunsaturatedfatty acids (PUFA). Radice et al. [6] found high PUFA (85.7%) content in cacay oil, along withhigh linoleic acid (85.6%) content. A lower PUFA content in cacay butter can be explained dueto the lower content of cacay oil, since cacay butter is a product resulting from mixing 70%coconut oil with 30% cacay oil.Thus, the high presence of polyunsaturated fatty acids in cacay oil demonstrates its poten-tial as a raw material for food, pharmaceutical, and cosmetic products since polyunsaturatedfatty acids may have bioactive properties of industrial interest [26].

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Cacay oil has higher palmitic acid content than butter or coconut oil (refer to Table 1). Therefore, cacay oil SHOULD be solid at room temperature, not oil Table 1. Fatty acid composition of samples.Cаcay oil (%)NDFatty acidCoconut oil (%)Cacay butter (%)Сaprylic (C8:0)0.70.2Capric (C10:0)0.13.02.1Lauric (C12:0)ND&#34;38.431.8Myristic (C14:0)Palmitic (C16:0)Palmitoleic (C16:1)0.620.216.820.513.515.40.3NDNDStearic (C18:0)2.32.52.7Elaidic (C18:1 trans9)0.7NDNDOleic (C18:1 cis9)17.015.514.1Linoleic (C18:2 cis9,12)58.36.116.8*Not detected.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0232224.t001fatty acids present in coconut oil, with a similar amount for lauric (40.8%) and myristic(20.3%) acids. In contrast, lower saturated fatty acid content (23.6%) was found in cacay oil.Similar results were obtained by Radice et al. [6], who reported low saturated fatty acid contentin cacay oil (14.3%), with a predominance of palmitic acid (10.3%).Cacay oil, coconut oil, and cacay butter presented similar percentages of oleic acid amongthe detected monounsaturated acids. Lower results were reported by Correia et al. [24] andPérez et al. [5] in coconut oil (9.9%) and cacay oil (11.8%), respectively. Trans-fatty acid (oleicacid isomer) was found in cacay oil (0.7%), but at a content considered insignificant whencompared to Codex Alimentarius [25].Linoleic acid (w-6) was the most abundant fatty acid in cacay oil regarding polyunsaturatedfatty acids (PUFA). Radice et al. [6] found high PUFA (85.7%) content in cacay oil, along withhigh linoleic acid (85.6%) content. A lower PUFA content in cacay butter can be explained dueto the lower content of cacay oil, since cacay butter is a product resulting from mixing 70%coconut oil with 30% cacay oil.Thus, the high presence of polyunsaturated fatty acids in cacay oil demonstrates its poten-tial as a raw material for food, pharmaceutical, and cosmetic products since polyunsaturatedfatty acids may have bioactive properties of industrial interest [26].

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Fats are the biomolecules that are immiscible in water. These includes long chain carboxylic acids…