%0 Journal Article %T Caracteriza£¿£¿o do ¨®leo de Farelo de Arroz Refinado %A Bruscatto %A Mariangela H. %A Pestana-Bauer %A Vanessa R. %A Rutz %A Josiane K. %A Zambiazi %A Rui C. %J Revista de ciencia y tecnolog£¿-a %D 2012 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X the aim of this study was to characterize chemically and physically refined rice bran oil. the samples of the rice (oryza sativa) bran oil were provided by irgovel industry (pelotas/rs/brasil) and helmut tessmann industry (camaqu£¿/rs/brasil). the acidity content of the chemically and physically refined rice bran oil was 0.3% (oleic acid). the peroxide value for chemically and physically refined rice bran oil was 2.07 meq g. kg-1 and 1.72 meq g.kg-1, respectively. the chemically refined oil showed a content of 43.52 mg. 100 g-1 of tocopherols, and the physically refined rice bran oil was 35.60 mg.100 g-1. the ? - oryzanol content was 33.55 mg.100 g-1 and 732.60 mg.100 g-1 for the chemically and physically refined rice oils, respectively. therefore, the neutralization step affects the content of ? -oryzanol. %K rice bran oil %K chemically refined %K physically refined %K characterization %K tocopherols %K y-oryzanol. %U http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1851-75872012000200005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en