红棕榈油的营养成分及功效研究进展Research progress on the nutritional ingredients and efficacy of red palm oil

红棕榈油是从油棕果肉中提取的一种植物油，由于它只经过适度加工，没有经过全精炼工艺，从而保留了丰富的活性物质。为提高大众对红棕榈油认识的科学性，对红棕榈油的营养成分、功效进行了综述，并对未来研究方向进行了展望。红棕榈油的营养成分主要包括脂肪酸、类胡萝卜素、维生素E（生育酚、生育三烯酚）等，具有预防维生素A缺乏症、预防心血管疾病、抗氧化、抗癌等功效。未来需要进一步研究红棕榈油的加工技术，以减少活性成分的损失，提高产品质量，同时，红棕榈油预防或治疗我国人群某些疾病的有效剂量及作用机制还需进一步研究。 Red palm oil is a vegetable oil extracted from oil palm fruit, which retains a wealth of active substances because it is only moderately processed and does not undergo a full refining process. In order to improve the public′s scientific understanding of red palm oil, the nutritional ingredients, efficacy of red palm oil were reviewed, and future research directions were envisioned. The nutritional ingredients of red palm oil mainly includes fatty acids, carotenoid, vitamin E (tocopherol, tocotrienol), etc. It has the efficacy of preventing vitamin A deficiency, preventing cardiovascular disease, antioxidant and anticancer. In the future, further research on the processing technology of red palm oil is needed to minimize the loss of active ingredients and improve the quality of the product, while further studies are needed on the effective dose and mechanism of action of red palm oil in preventing or treating certain diseases in Chinese people.