. 2024 Apr 29;13(9):1370. doi: 10.3390/foods13091370

Table 3.

Fatty acid composition of the outer (sn-1,3) and inner (sn-2) triacylglycerol (TAG) positions of the tested pomegranate seed oils.

Fatty Acid	Composition (%)
Fatty Acid		Oil A	Oil B	Oil C	Oil D
C16:0	TAG	4.28 ± 0.04 ^b	3.81 ± 0.01 ^a	4.50 ± 0.01 ^c	5.02 ± 0.06 ^d
	sn-2	3.22 ± 0.66 ^ab	3.75 ± 0.26 ^b	2.36 ± 0.08 ^a	2.76 ± 0.05 ^ab
	sn-1,3	4.81 ± 0.33 ^b	3.84 ± 0.13 ^a	5.57 ± 0.04 ^c	6.15 ± 0.02 ^d
C18:0	TAG	3.05 ± 0.01 ^bc	2.87 ± 0.13 ^b	3.11 ± 0.03 ^c	2.67 ± 0.01 ^a
	sn-2	1.5 ± 0.13 ^a	2.10 ± 0.03 ^b	1.32 ± 0.01 ^a	1.42 ± 0.04 ^a
	sn-1,3	3.83 ± 0.07 ^b	3.26 ± 0.01 ^a	4.01 ± 0.01 ^c	3.30 ± 0.02 ^a
C18:1 n-9	TAG	18.92 ± 0.06 ^c	7.65 ± 0.53 ^a	19.95 ± 0.08 ^d	17.35 ± 0.06 ^b
	sn-2	18.59 ± 1.29 ^c	10.33 ± 0.25 ^a	18.14 ± 0.15 ^c	15.88 ± 0.08 ^b
	sn-1,3	19.09 ± 0.65 ^c	6.31 ± 0.13 ^a	20.86 ± 0.07 ^d	18.09 ± 0.04 ^b
C18:2 n-6	TAG	27.47 ± 0.06 ^b	8.40 ± 0.06 ^a	29.01 ± 0.09 ^c	31.53 ± 0.17 ^d
	sn-2	32.24 ± 1.35 ^b	17.43 ± 0.46 ^a	31.84 ± 0.50 ^b	33.09 ± 0.17 ^b
	sn-1,3	25.09 ± 0.68 ^b	3.89 ± 0.23 ^a	27.60 ± 0.25 ^c	30.75 ± 0.08 ^d
C18:3 (9c, 11t, 13c)	TAG	41.68 ± 0.15 ^c	67.36 ± 1.07 ^d	39.82 ± 0.16 ^b	27.03 ± 0.14 ^a
	sn-2	29.72 ± 1.66 ^a	48.67 ± 0.54 ^c	35.49 ± 0.34 ^b	29.41 ± 0.30 ^a
	sn-1,3	47.66 ± 0.83^c	76.71 ± 0.27 ^d	41.99 ± 0.17 ^b	25.84 ± 0.15 ^a

The different lowercase letters indicate significantly different values (p ≤ 0.05). Data are presented as mean values followed by standard deviation (±SD).