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. 2020 Nov 11;9(11):1646. doi: 10.3390/foods9111646

Table 4.

Minor compounds: phytosterols, terpenic alcohols, squalene, aliphatic alcohols and tocopherols.

Compound µg/g (%) References
Desmethylsterols
Cholesterol n.d.–7.18 (0.25) [85,92,93,94]
24-Methylene-cholesterol 1.15 (0.04)–3.9 [93,94]
Campesterol 49–134 (2.46–16.7) [11,12,85,92,93,94,95]
Campestanol 3.73 (0.13)-33 [94,96]
Stigmasterol 3.9–50 (0.41–6,9) [85,92,93,94,95,96]
Δ7-Campesterol 22.39 (0.78) [94]
Δ5,23-Stigmastadienol + Clerosterol 30.8–40.19 (1.40) [93,94]
β-Sitosterol 580–2290 (72.4–95.5) [11,12,85,87,92,93,94,95,96]
Sitostanol 32–54.83 (1.91) [93,94,96]
Δ5-Avenasterol 32–283.89 (3.52–9.89) [85,92,93,94,95,96]
Δ5,24-Stigmastadienol 6.05–42.48 (0.29–1.48) [92,93,94]
Δ7-Stigamasterol 9.74–55.69 (0.43–1.94) [12,93,94]
Δ7-Avenasterol 5.42–39.90 (0.26–1.39) [11,93,94]
Total µg/g 1222–2870 [11,12,85,92,93,94,96,97]
Methylsterols
Obtusifoliol 7.90 (26.57) [94]
Gramisterol 4.00 (13.46) [94]
Citrostadienol 17.83 (59.96) [94]
Dimethylsterols
Dammaradienol 0.62 (7.44) [94]
Taraxerol 0.38 (4.55) [94]
α + β Amyrin 2.08 (24.97) [94]
Cycloartenol 0.99 (11.91) [94]
24-Methylencycloartanol 4.27 (51.13) [94]
Total sterols 2908.56 [94]
Squalene µg/g 37.9–114.2 [30,90,94,98]
Terpenic alcohols
Phytol (71.65) [94]
Geranylgeraniol (28.35) [94]
Total µg/g 9.74 [94]
Aliphatic alcohols
C22-OH (23.13) [94]
C23-OH (2.56) [94]
C24-OH (29.66) [94]
C25-OH (7.70) [94]
C26-OH (40.31) [94]
Total µg/g 5.55 [94]

In parenthesis: samples origin country/region; in brackets: source of variability studied. [a] variety; [b] environment/crop year; [c] extraction method. [94]: (Brazil); [92]: (Iran); [85]: (Sweden); [30]: (Argentina) [a,b]; [93]: (Turkey) [c]; [95]: [c]; [87]: (Turkey) [c]; [96]: (USA); [11]: (Spain) [a,b]; [12]: (Spain) [c]; [90]: (Tunisia) [a,b].