Viscosity Measurements of various Vegetable Oils used in Indian Cooking

Poonam Juneja , Savvi Mishra

Viscosity, Density, edible oils, Ostwald viscometer, kitchen wastewater

Vegetable and seed oils are essentially used as a medium for cooking food, to render it edible and to enhance its taste. Though oils have nutritional value, are carriers of fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K and provide energy for various physiological processes, its growing consumption has led to various health complications such as increased cholesterol, and other heart related diseases. Hence, the need to study any transformation or change in its composition, when subjected to cooking or frying or other industrial processes. Viscosity, density, and specific gravity are some of the parameters which can be indicative of the transformations. In the present study, an Ostwald viscometer (which is based on Poiseuille’s law) was used to make a comparative measurement of viscosity of nine samples of oils belonging to a popular brand. It is well known that there is a decrease in intermolecular forces with increasing temperature, which results in decreased viscosity. Therefore, the change in viscosity is a good index to quantify the degradation of heated oil. The results can be used to predict the quality factors of edible vegetable oils, helping to choose the right type of oil for each industrial or domestic process. This study can be further extended to devise suitable means to treat kitchen wastewater which has viscous edible oil in it and poses environmental challenges.

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"Viscosity Measurements of various Vegetable Oils used in Indian Cooking", IJNRD - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (www.IJNRD.org), ISSN:2456-4184, Vol.9, Issue 10, page no.c67-c72, October-2024, Available :https://ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2410213.pdf

Volume 9 Issue 10, October-2024

Pages : c67-c72

Paper Reg. ID: IJNRD_301402

Published Paper Id: IJNRD2410213

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Research Area: Physics All

Country: NEW DELHI, Delhi, India

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DOI: http://doi.one/10.1729/Journal.41988

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