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. 2013 Jul 10;90(10):1503–1508. doi: 10.1007/s11746-013-2293-1

Table 3.

Fatty acid composition of Camellia seed oil extracted by continuous subcritical n-butane fluid extraction

No. Fatty acids Retention time Molecular formula Chain Relative content (%)
1 Myristic acid 14.98 C14H28O2 C14:0 0.57 ± 0.06
2 Hexadecenoic acid 16.24 C16H30O2 C16:1 0.12 ± 0.01
3 Palmitic acid 17.9 C16H32O2 C16:0 10.38 ± 0.05
4 Heptadecenoic acid 19.29 C17H32O2 C17:1 0.24 ± 0.02
5 Linoleic acid 21.41 C18H32O2 C18:2 9.15 ± 0.03
6 Oleic acid 21.96 C18H34O2 C18:1 73.12 ± 0.40
7 Octadecanoic acid 22.33 C18H36O2 C18:0 2.57 ± 0.04
8 Linolenic acid 23.09 C18H30O2 C18:3 0.12 ± 0.00
9 Arachidonic acid 23.74 C20H32O2 C20:4 0.28 ± 0.05
10 Eicosenoic acid 25.78 C20H38O2 C20:1 0.5 ± 0.01
11 Eicosanoic acid 26.14 C20H40O2 C20:0 0.33 ± 0.00
12 Others 26.29 C15H22O10 C15:4 0.24 ± 0.07
14 26.41 C18H36O4 C18:0 0.02 ± 0.00
15 27.51 C27H42O4 C27:6 0.01 ± 0.00
Saturated fatty acids 13.89 ± 0.21
Unsaturated fatty acids 83.78 ± 0.03
MUFA 73.98 ± 0.11
PUFA 9.8 ± 0.04