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. 2014 Jun 29;2(5):443–463. doi: 10.1002/fsn3.121

Table 6.

Fatty Acid Compositions (g Fatty Acid/100-g Oil) of Seed Oils fruits, herbs and seeds with Relatively High concentrations of α-Linolenic Acid (18:3 n-3).

Fatty acid Black Raspberry Red Raspberry Boysenberry Marionberry Blueberry Cranberry Buckthorn sinensis Buckthorn Rhamnoides O.Basilicum (basil) Hemp
16:0 1.2–1.6 1.2–2.7 4.2 3.3 5.7 3.0–7.8 7.7–9.6 6.7–8.2 6.8–8.8 5.8–6.7
18:0 Trace 1.0 4.5 3.1 2.8 0.2–1.9 2.1–3.3 2.3–4.1 2.0–2.8 2.6–3.2
18:1 6.2–7.7 12.0–12.4 17.9 15.1 22.8 20.0–27.8 12.9-26.1 13.7–20.0 8.7–11.6 9.9–15.6
18:2 55.9–57.9 53.0–54.5 53.8 62.8 43.5 35.0–44.3 38.2-43.6 36.7–43.0 18.3–21.7 53.4–60.0
18:3 n-3 35.2–35.3 29.1–32.4 19.5 15.7 25.1 22.3–35.0 20.2-36.3 25.4-36.0 57.4–62.5 15.1–19.4
others ND ND ND ND ND 2.5 1.9–2.5 1.8–3.8 trace 0–1.8
Yu et al. (2005) Yu et al. (2005) Yu et al. (2005) Yu et al. (2005) Yu et al. (2005) Yu et al. (2005) Yu et al. (2005) Yu et al. (2005) Yu et al. 2005;117 Yu et al. (2005), Angers et al. (1996)
Fatty acid Perilla Camelina Chia Flax seed Malaysian rubber seed oil Rose fruit Walnut Lupin Canola Soybean
16:0 7 6 6 5.3 8.56 1.7–3.1 8.1 8.7 3.8 11.2
18:0 2 2 3 3.3 10.56 1.7–2.5 2.8 0.8 1.7 4.1
18:1 14 13 7 17.9 22.95 14.7–18.4 15.9 45.8 58.2 24.3
18:2n-6 17 16 20 17.7 32.28 48.6–54.4 59.7 24.1 20.1 54.6
18:3n-3 61 39 63 58.7 19.22 16.4–18.4 13.1 11.3 9.6 8.3
Gunstone et al. (1994), Siriamornpun et al. (2006) Yu et al. (2005), Budin et al. (1995) Coates and Ayerza (1998), Yu et al. (2005) Gunstone et al. (1994), Hassan-Zadeh et al. (2008) Salimon and Abdullah (2009) Yu et al. (2005) Venkatachalam and Sathe (2006) Bhardwaj et al. (2004) Przybylski et al. (2005) Yu et al. (2005)