Development of plant based alternative to Emu oil

Avaria Health and Beauty Corporation是一家位于加拿大安大略滑铁卢的公司，是治疗和化妆品的制造商。他们的一些更成功的产品含有鸸鹋油。鸸鹋油是从鸸鹋的某些亚种，Dromaius novaehollanarus，一种原产于澳大利亚的不会飞的鸟收获的脂肪组织中提取的油。鸸鹋油的供应是有限的，需求很高，因此Avaria面临着这个重要的投入，他们的产品立即短缺。阿瓦里亚想开发一种植物油为基础的油，类似于鸸鹋油密切。迄今为止的尝试都没有成功，主要是由于对这个问题的非分子方法。Avaria正在寻求由CRC主席A.G.领导的食品，健康和衰老实验室的帮助。圭尔夫大学的马兰戈尼，开发这种替代品。FHA是世界领先的脂质材料科学实验室之一，特别是三酰基甘油。在这里，我们建议使用脂肪和油的特定组合来表征鸸鹋油和匹配的三酰甘油组合物。大多数获取数据的方法都依赖于“经验”来创建此类混合物或仅创建脂肪酸组合物。诀窍在于匹配分子种类，即，特殊的三酰甘油结构。这将几乎保证适当的熔化，流变和感官特性将匹配。联邦住宅管理局实验室装备精良，进行这样的物理和化学表征.有几种石油组合，我们已经预测将做这项工作;这个项目将证实我们的预测。这也将形成基质的基础，可用于替代不同的油，以实现相同的目标。通过这种方式，Avaria可以最大限度地提高回报，最大限度地降低投入成本，同时保持相同的分子组成和特性。该项目将在规定的六个月内完成。

Avaria Health and Beauty Corporation, a canadian company based in Waterloo, Ontario, is a manufacturer of therapeutic and cosmetic products. Some of their more successful products contain emu oil. Emu oil is oil derived from adipose tissue harvested from certain subspecies of the emu, Dromaius novaehollandiae, a flightless bird indigenous to Australia. The supply of emu oil is limited, the demand is high and thus Avaria is facing an immediate shortage of this important input for their products. Avaria would like to develop a vegetable oil based oil that resembles emu oil closely. Attempts to date have been unsuccessful, mainly due to a non-molecular approach to the problem. Avaria is seeking help from the Food, Health and Aging laboratory, lead by CRC Chair A.G. Marangoni at the University of Guelph, to develop such replacement. The FHA is one of the leading laboratories in the world in the materials science of lipids, triaclylglycerols in particular. Here we propose to characterize the triacylglycerol composition of the emu oil and match using specific combinations of fats an oils. Most approaches to data have relied on "experience" to create such blends or just fatty acid compositions. The trick is in matching molecular species, i.e., specific triacylglycerol structures. This will almost guarantee that the proper melting, rheological and sensorial properties will be matched. The FHA laboratory is well -equipped to carry out such physical and chemical characterizations. There are several oil combinations that we have predicted will do the job; this project will confirm our predictions. This will also form the basis of a matrix that can be used to substitute different oils to achieve the same goal. In this way, Avaria can maximize returns, minimize input costs, while maintaining the same molecular composition and properties. The project will be completed within the allotted six months.