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. 2022 Dec 30;30(6):14104–14125. doi: 10.1007/s11356-022-25048-4

Table 2.

Fatty acid profile of several oil feedstocks

Fatty acid Vegetable oil source
Palm Soybean Rapeseed Jatropha Sunflower
Capric (C10:0) 0.48 - 0.56 - -
Lauric (C12:0) - 0.09 0.09 0.09 0.10
Myristic (C14:0) 1.05 0.09 - 0.28 0.10
Palmitic (C16:0) 41.59 11.07 4.04 14.36 6.31
Palmitoleic (C16:1) 0.19 0.18 0.09 0.93 0.10
Stearic (C18:0) 3.6 3.72 2.1 5.88 3.55
Oleic (C18:1) 40.41 22.61 57.26 38.94 21.39
Linoleic (C18:2) 9.3 51.33 20.69 34.89 63.35
Linolenic (C18:3) 0.29 5.63 8.08 0.28 1.46
Arachidic (C20:0) 0.29 0.27 0.37 0.19 0.29
Eicosenoic (C20:1) 0.1 0.27 2.02 0.09 0.19
Behenic (C22:0) 0.1 0.27 0.28 0.19 0.58
Erucic (C22:1) - 0.09 0.46 0.09 0.10
Total saturated 48.85 15.70 7.06 23.58 11.22
Total unsaturated 50.28 80.39 88.80 75.31 88.69
Ref Aung et al. (2018) Prabakaran et al. (2018) Bocianowski et al. (2012) Jonas et al. (2020) Akkaya (2018)