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Analysis of oil content of groundnuts by nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometry
Author(s) -
Jambunathan Ramamurthi,
Raju S. Madhusudana,
Barde Shubhada P.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
journal of the science of food and agriculture
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.782
H-Index - 142
eISSN - 1097-0010
pISSN - 0022-5142
DOI - 10.1002/jsfa.2740360306
Subject(s) - extraction (chemistry) , petroleum ether , mass spectrometry , chemistry , chromatography , germplasm , botany , biology
One hundred groundnut germplasm accessions were analysed for their oil content by the standard Soxhlet extraction procedure using petroleum ether: the results were compared using functional analysis with those obtained with a commercial nuclear magnetic resonance (n.m.r.) spectrometer. On another 78 experimental samples, oil content was first obtained using the n.m.r. method and the Soxhlet values were predicted using the above functional relationship. On the 78 samples the predicted values were highly correlated (r=0.972) with those obtained by Soxhlet extraction. The n.m.r. method is rapid, easy, acurate and non‐destructive.