• BALJEET KAUR
• Dr. Seema Sharma

Oilseeds are leading suppliers of superior quality and specialty vegetable oils to nutritional products, natural food and premium snack food worldwide. Oil producing crops are corn, oat, cotton, soybean, mustard, camelina, crambe, safflower, sunflower, peanut, rapeseed, coconut, oil palm and olives. Oilseeds produced in most of the countries are mostly used for oil extraction. The oil content of small grains for example, wheat is only 1 to 2%, but that of oilseeds ranges from about 20% for soybean to over 40% for sunflower and rapeseeds like canola. The major world sources of edible seed oils are soybean, sunflower, rapeseed, cotton and peanut. Seed oils from flax (linseed) and castor bean are used for industrial purposes. They do not contain an appreciable amount of carbohydrate but contain high level of B vitamins. Oilseeds add important nutritional value to the diet due to high quality protein and or vegetable oil, together with oil soluble vitamins like vitamin A. Oilseeds, are the largest source of vegetable oils even though most oil-bearing tree fruits provide the highest oil yields

Oil Seed, Nutrition, Crop, Seed Oil, Vegetable Oil, Soyabean, Sunflower, Yields, Carbohydrates

"Role of Oil Seed Nutrition in Human Health", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 1, page no.f625-f628, January-2024, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2401575.pdf

"Role of Oil Seed Nutrition in Human Health", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 1, page no. ppf625-f628, January-2024, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2401575.pdf