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Fatty Acid Composition of California Grown Almonds
Author(s) -
Sathe S.K.,
Seeram N.P.,
Kshirsagar H.H.,
Heber D.,
Lapsley K.A.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of food science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 150
eISSN - 1750-3841
pISSN - 0022-1147
DOI - 10.1111/j.1750-3841.2008.00936.x
Subject(s) - cultivar , prunus dulcis , linoleic acid , oleic acid , composition (language) , palmitic acid , chemistry , food science , linolenic acid , petroleum ether , fatty acid , botany , biology , biochemistry , chromatography , extraction (chemistry) , linguistics , philosophy
Eight almond ( Prunus dulcis L.) cultivars from 12 different California counties, collected during crop years 2004 to 2005 and 2005 to 2006, were extracted with petroleum ether. The extracts were subjected to GC‐MS analyses to determine fatty acid composition of soluble lipids. Results indicated palmitic (C16:0), oleic (C18:1), linoleic (C18:2), and α‐linolenic (C18:3) acid, respectively, accounted for 5.07% to 6.78%, 57.54% to 73.94%, 19.32% to 35.18%, and 0.04% to 0.10%; of the total lipids. Oleic and linoleic acid were inversely correlated ( r =–0.99, P = 0.05) and together accounted for 91.16% to 94.29% of the total soluble lipids. Statistically, fatty acid composition was significantly affected by cultivar and county.