Importance of saponification value towards food quality
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The saponification value is the amount of potassium hydroxide (in mg) that is required to react with the fatty acids produced as an effect of the hydrolysis of a gram of fat. This, thus, in food items is a direct indication of the amount of fatty acids present. As fatty acids are not desirable in food, the saponification value becomes a direct indication of the quality of the food.
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"The value of saponification is used to determine the amount of fatty acid in the sample of food.
The saponification process is the conversion of fatty acids into soaps with the help of aqueous alkali such as NaOH.
Soaps are fatty acid of salts that consist of long carboxylic acid carbon chains. Saponification value shows how much potassium hydroxide in milligrams required for a gram of fat to be saponified. Therefore, one can easily get to know about the grams of fat present in the food sample by using this value."
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