Table 4.

Fatty acid concentration (mg/100g) in indigenous and hybrid varieties of pumpkin seed oil.

Fatty acid	Indigenous pumpkin seed oil	Hybrid pumpkin seed oil
Saturated
Capricacid (C10:0)	0.453 ± 0.01	0.631 ± 0.01***
Lauric acid (C12:0)	1.336 ± 0.33	2.279 ± 0.38
Myristic acid (C14:0)	0.009 ± 0.00	0.178 ± 0.01**
Palmitic acid (C16:0)	20.784 ± 0.50	22.840 ± 0.50
Stearic acid (C18:0)	4.519 ± 0.50	6.600 ± 0.54*
Unsaturated
Oleic acid (C18:1)	25.417 ± 0.51*	23.823 ± 0.67
Linoleic acid (C18:2)	49.416 ± 0. .68*	46.511 ± 0.52
Linolenic acid (C18:3)	2.248 ± 0.49*	0.359 ± 0.06

Values are indicated as mean ± SE (n = 3). *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01 and ***p < 0.001 are considered as significant.