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) |