What is it about?
This is the first chemical characterization of Coco de mer palms which are considered as the last witness of the old continent “Gondwana”, which was formed by Africa, Madagascar and India together, and about 65 millions of years ago split into a number of lands, leaving Seychelles alone.
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Why is it important?
The analytical study here presented intends to fill this lack and to complete previous investigations performed in our laboratory in order to highlight the possible presence in this type of coconut of chemical compounds interesting from a nutritional and pharmacological point of view.
Perspectives
The analysis of Coco de mer fruits was performed by HS-SPME and GC/MS techniques in order to determine volatile aroma, sterol and fatty acid composition profiles in the internal and external pulp of two distinct coconuts. The obtained results are indicating that deeper investigations, performed taking into account a wide spread population of coconut samples having a different maturation degree, are needed in order to determine the characteristics of the “Coco de mer” from a nutritional and pharmacological point of view. The results of this study can be taken as a preliminary data base for further investigations on the “Coco de mer” fruit in order to better clarify its possible alimentary and pharmacological potentialities.
Stefano Falcinelli
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This page is a summary of: Chemical Characterization of Lodoicea maldivica
Fruit, Chemistry & Biodiversity, July 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/cbdv.201700109.
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