Color of oil extracts CIELab coordinates (L a and t") of the oil extracted from lantana and sweet pepper seeds and nabak seed kernels are shown in Figure 1. Nabak seed kernel oil showed the highest L' and values indicating that this oil was lighter colored and more yellow than other studied oils. Such a color seems to attract consumers (Hsu and Chung 1998). The CIELab coordinates (L', d". and b values of other vegetable oils. such as palm. soybean, sunflower, olive, and corn ranged from 63.4 to 69.5, 3.8 to 4.4, and 9.2 to 10.4, respectively (Hsu and Yu 2002). This shows that the l value of nabak seed kernels oil (12.4) was higher than those of other