Nutritive value of crude, refined and hydrogenated cottonseed oil.

The nutritive value of fats used for edible purposes was the subject of study
by a large number of workers. Deuel et al (1, 2), Parish et al (3) and Harris and
Mosher (4) did not find any difference in the growth promoting value of different
fats, when fed along with an adequate diet to rats. Schantz et al (5) and Boutwell
et al (6) reported butter fat to be superior to other fats in promoting growth
in albino rats. The superiority of butter fat over other fats was observed when
the carbohydrate present in the diet is mainly lactose (6). Fats are also found to
have a beneficial effect on the utilisation of calcium and phosphorus (7, 8, 9).
Although a large amount of work has been done on the nutritive value and effect
on mineral metabolism of a wide variety of edible oils, little information is available
concerning crude, refined and hydrogenated cottonseed oil. The present
paper deals with studies on the growth-promoting value and effect on mineral
metabolism of crude, refined and hydrogenated cottonseed oil in growing rats.