| dc.description.abstract | It was reported that in 2021 Indonesia has around 14,663.6 hectares of oil palm plantations. Palm oil is a strength industrial plant for the Indonesian economy as it is one of the plantation commodities that contributes a large foreign exchange. The main product of oil palm plantations are oil palm fresh fruit bunches (FFB). However, there are oil palm loose fruits (LF) which are found on the ground during the process of cutting FFB at harvest. Generally, the oil palm loose fruits (LF) that have passed the processing time are considered as solid waste due to their high free fatty acid. In our work, the potential of palm loose fruit will be investigated so that could be processed to give added economic value. The samples used in this work are oil palm fresh fruit bunches (FFB) and oil palm loose fruits (LF) with the various delay in processing time, i.e. 0, 4, 8 and 12 days. The results showed that the oil palm loose fruits (LF) have a composition of 54% of mesocarp, while the seeds are 46%. Delay on processing of LF for 12 days results in a significant reduction extract yield. The free fatty acid, acid values and palmitic acid content are increasing along with the processing time delay, and the LF after 12 days has a high level of oil saturation indicated by the lowest of iodine number. However, the carotene content increases with increasing processing delay time. Here, we can conclude that the oil palm loose fruits (LF) have the potential to have enhanced added value because the mesocarp can be extracted producing crude palm oil (CPO). While the seeds called kernels can be processed to produce oil kernel or palm kernel oil (PKO). They can be further processed for food products and energy sources. | en_US |
