Possible Interaction: Phosphatidylethanolamine and Tocopherols

“The combination of mixed tocopherols with PE presented the greatest increase in antioxidant activity with hydroperoxides and hexanal lag phases increasing 54 and 53 days compared to the mixed tocopherols alone.”

“The study indicates that PE is a powerful tool to increase the antioxidant activity of tocopherols in bulk oil and that modification of lecithin to increase PE concentration could be a commercially viable option to functionalize lecithin so that its ability to inhibit lipid oxidation increases in bulk oils.”

“This study is the first to show that PE and PS can act synergistically with tocopherols to inhibit lipid oxidation in oil-in-water emulsions and can present a new clean label antioxidant strategy for food emulsions.”

“This study indicates that the antioxidant activity of tocopherols could be improved by utilizing phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) to engineer the properties of reverse micelles in bulk oil.”

“From the interaction of these tocopherols with dielaidoylphosphatidylethanolamine it is concluded that both molecules promote the formation of the hexagonal HII phase at temperatures lower than those of the pure phospholipid.”