TABLE 1.

Fatty acid composition of camellia oil according to studies using different extraction methods.

No.	Analytical Method	Main Fatty Acids (% of the Total Fatty Acids)	References
1	Petroleum ether extraction and gas chromatography (GC)	82–84% unsaturated fatty acids (UFA),68–77% monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFA), 7–14% polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA).	Ma et al. (2011)
2	gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS)	90% UFA, 66.54–83.24% oleic acid, 8.15–9.70% palmitic acid, 5.64–7.96% linoleic acid.	Yuan et al. (2012)
3	GC–MS	87.45–90.17% UFA, 77.08–82.78% MUFA, 5.17–11.27% PUFA.	Yang et al. (2016)
4	Hydrolytic extraction and GC	10–10.4% SFA, 89.55–90.00% UFA, 79.35–81.60% MUFA, 8.40–10.20% PUFA.	Cao et al. (2017)
5	GC	12.65–12.40% SFA, 79.16–81.05% MUFA, 8.19–8.04% PUFA.	Zhang et al. (2019)
6	Methanol extraction and GC–MS	87.85–91.44% UFA, 80.53– 86.18% oleic acid, 6.72–9.26% palmitic acid, 4.19–8.95% linoleic acid, 0.84–1.65% stearic acid, 0.09–0.26% eicosenoic acid	Liu et al. (2021)