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'''Pequi oil''' is a seed oil, extracted from the seeds of the ''[[Caryocar brasiliense]]'', which is native to [[Brazil]]. The pale yellow [[mesocarp]] oil is extracted and used directly as a cooking oil.<ref name="pequi">{{cite book
| url=http://www.fao.org/docrep/X5043E/x5043E05.htm#Caryocar%20spp
| chapter=Caryocar spp.
| title=Minor oil crops
| publisher=FAO
| author=B.L. Axtell from research by R.M. Fairman
| date=1992
| accessdate=2006-11-10
}}</ref> In Brazil, there are projects among [[indigenous peoples of the Americas|indigenous]] people groups to develop pequi oil production as a means of economic development.<ref>{{cite web
| url=http://socioambiental.org/pib/epienglish/xingu/ativi.shtm
| publisher=Indigenous People in Brazil
| work=Indigenous Park of the Xingu
| title=Mel dos Índios do Xingu
| accessdate=2006-11-10
}}</ref>

Pequi oil contains 44.2% [[palmitic acid|palmitic]] and 51.7% [[oleic acid]], with [[linoleic acid|linolenic]] and [[stearic acid]]s in much smaller amounts.<ref>{{cite journal
| title=Triacylglycerol analysis of pequi (Caryocar brasiliensis Camb.) oil by electrospray and tandem mass spectrometry
| author=Sérgio D Segall, William E Raslan, Délio S Artz, Vany P Ferraz & Jacqueline A Takahashi
| journal=Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture
| volume=86
| issue=3
| date=February 2006
| pages=445-452
| url=http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/112149039/ABSTRACT?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
}}</ref>

== References ==
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[[Category:Vegetable oils]]
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