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Mamey Sapote Seed Oil

INCI Pouteria Sapota Seed Butter. Also: Sapote oil, Zapote seed oil, Mamey seed oil, Pouteria sapota seed fat.

Calculate a 100 % Mamey Sapote Seed Oil bar

Published values

Saponification value198 mg KOH/g
Used by the calculator198.0 mg KOH/g (typical)
SAP for NaOH0.1412 g/g
Iodine value60 g I₂/100 g
INS (SAP − IV)138
Melting point—
Unsaponifiable matter—

A bar made of 100 % Mamey Sapote Seed Oil

Hardness 39 29–54
Cleansing 0 below 12–22
Conditioning 60 44–69
Bubbly lather 0 below 14–46
Creamy lather 39 16–48

Conventional qualities summed from the fatty-acid groups; a single-oil bar is a reference point, not a recipe.

Fatty-acid profile

Fatty acidPublished range, %Used
Palmitic acid C16:0 · saturated 10.5–10.8 (typical 10.5) 10.5
Stearic acid C18:0 · saturated 23.3–28.65 (typical 28.65) 28.7
Oleic acid C18:1 48.62–54.5 (typical 48.62) 48.6
Linoleic acid C18:2 10.2–10.77 (typical 10.77) 10.8
α-Linolenic acid C18:3 n-3 0.2–0.58 (typical 0.58) 0.6
Arachidic acid C20:0 · saturated 0.36–0.6 (typical 0.36) 0.4
Gadoleic acid C20:1 ≤ 0.1 0.1
Behenic acid C22:0 · saturated 0.1–0.4 (typical 0.4) 0.4
Lignoceric acid C24:0 · saturated ≤ 0.1 0.1

Where these numbers come from

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (Grasas y Aceites), open access — Solis-Fuentes J.A., Ayala-Tirado R.C., Fernandez-Suarez A.D., Duran-de-Bazua M.C. Mamey sapote seed oil (Pouteria sapota). Potential, composition, fractionation and thermal behavior. Grasas y Aceites 2015, 66(1):e056 (doi 10.3989/gya.0691141) · document dated 2015-03-30 · read 2026-09-24

PDF galley https://grasasyaceites.revistas.csic.es/index.php/grasasyaceites/article/download/1521/1650 read. Section 3.3 physicochemical properties; Table 3 fatty acid composition; Table 4 and Figure 1 thermal behaviour.

PlantFAdb, Michigan State University (fatplants.net), based on the SOFA database of the Max Rubner-Institut; Ohlrogge J. et al. (2018) PlantFAdb, The Plant Journal 96:1299-1308 — PlantFAdb dataset #10952 for Lucuma mammosa (plant 11567): 'Chemical characterization of zapote (Lucuma mammosa) seed' (1996), SOFA TAB_001150 · document dated 1996 · read 2026-09-24

GLC area-% fatty acids, oil content 32.4 wt-%. Used for the min/max.

The whole fat of the seed of mamey sapote (Pouteria sapota, synonyms Calocarpum mammosum, Lucuma mammosa). Primary: Solis-Fuentes, Ayala-Tirado, Fernandez-Suarez and Duran-de-Bazua 2015 (Grasas y Aceites 66(1):e056), seed oil of fruits from Emiliano Zapata, Veracruz, Mexico, solvent-extracted and purified. Section 3.3: refractive index 1.463, SAPONIFICATION VALUE 198 mg KOH/g, IODINE VALUE 60 g I2/100 g (AOAC official methods, Horwitz 1995). Table 3, fatty acids (g/100 g, mean of two determinations), immature / mature fruit: palmitic 10.79 / 10.50, stearic 26.57 / 28.65, oleic 53.59 / 48.62, linoleic 5.65 / 10.77, linolenic 0.27 / 0.58, arachidic 0.46 / 0.36, behenic 0.64 / 0.40, not identified 2.03 / 0.3; totals SFA 38.46 / 39.91, MUFA 53.59 / 48.62, PUFA 5.92 / 11.35 (the running text rounds the mature PUFA to 10.7). The typicals are the MATURE-fruit column; the immature column is not merged. Min/max add PlantFAdb dataset #10952 ('Chemical characterization of zapote (Lucuma mammosa) seed', 1996, SOFA TAB_001150; oil content 32.4 %): 16:0 10.8, 18:3 0.2, 18:2 10.2, 18:1 54.5, 18:0 23.3, 20:1 0.1, 20:0 0.6, 22:0 0.1, 24:0 0.1 %; gadoleic and lignoceric appear only there and are stored as max. Consistency: the mature profile implies about 191 mg KOH/g against the published 198 (+3.4 %), and its iodine value about 62 against the published 60. Physically the fat has a broad melting range (DSC melting from -35.2 C, peaks at -2.7, 13.1 and 34.4 C, range 73.2 C) and the authors describe it as liquid at ambient temperature in tropical regions; it is about 40 % saturated. No single melting point is given, so meltingPointC is null. INCI: CosIng defines 'Pouteria Sapota Seed Butter' as 'the fat obtained from the seeds of Pouteria sapota', which is what was analysed here; CosIng's 'Pouteria Sapota Seed Oil' (CAS 2004721-57-5) is 'the liquid fraction obtained from Pouteria Sapota Seed Butter' - a fractionated product with less stearic acid, which this record does not describe. A trade 'sapote oil' labelled with the Seed Oil name may therefore be the liquid fraction; the paper's own dry fractionation separated two solid fractions (21.0 % and 19.6 % of the oil, crystallised at 26.5 and 23.8 C) from a residual liquid.

This record is part of the open ingredient database (ODbL). Found an error or a better primary source? The dataset is on GitHub; corrections with a document link are welcome.