wheat germ oil vs. palm oil for vitamin E

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>>>>Secondly, Enig's figures aren't *her* primary research, but she

cites

enormous multi-volume lipid encyclopedias which are presumably based on

large

amounts of research, so it isn't like citing one study at all.

------>i wouldn't presume they're based on large amounts of research at all!

i believe much of her food composition figures come from the USDA database,

which i'm sure you already know is not a particularly reliable source. of

course she lists other citations for different parts of the book, but i

don't think we can automatically *assume* she got her food comp #s for WGO

and palm oil from " enormous multi-volume lipid encyclopedias " . in fact, she

specifically cites the USDA on the composition of fats and oils for the

chapter where she lists the fatty acid and vit. E content of WGO and palm

oil. so i think it's much more reasonable to assume that that is the source

for her #s. in any case, my only point was, dismissing data from commercial

sources carte blanche is not a valid approach. and when they throw a wrench

in your paradigm, perhaps it's worth taking a closer look and maybe

revising, rather than dismissing them off hand.

as to the rest of your post, thank you for succinctly stating your main

point in this email regarding the cost. i barely spend a fraction of $500 on

WGO a year! LOL more like $40/year. however, if your latest calculations are

correct, then it's obviously a poor investment.

and now that i realize i read the SP WGO label wrong, i really don't need

convincing that WGO is not a worthwhile investment as a vit. E source. since

i misread the lable, i had been thinking all along that i was getting 385

IUs *vit E* from each perle. (btw, SP claims WGO is 65% by weight the most

biologically active forms of vit E, so it wasn't unreasonable to believe

there could be 385 IUs in a perle.) i have no idea how i missed the fact

that this is actually the *WGO* amount. never mind the vit E in *CLO*, i get

a ton more from my multivitamin! so now that i've checked various sources,

plus read some of your figures, the vit. E content in 385 mgs WGO is so

small that it's clearly not worth buying for a vit. E source. however, palm

oil doesn't look like a particularly abundant source either. LOL they're

both a lot lower than i'm looking for. oh well, other than isolated vitamin

E extract supplements, palm oil seems to be a reasonable natural source,

although whether any given brand contains all the tocotrienols and

tocopherols seems unclear. perhaps the data showing some samples of palm oil

only contain 4-7 of the 8 vit. E compounds is from *RDB* palm oil..? but i

do like the fact that it's quite saturated and has a good amount of

carotenes.

Suze Fisher

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