FOOD SCIENCE ›› 2009, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (16): 220-222.doi: 10.7506/spkx1002-6630-200916047

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GC-MS Analysis of Fatty Acid Composition of Litchi Pulp

ZHONG Hui-zhen1,XU Yu-juan2,*,LI Chun-mei1,WEN Jing2,WU Ji-jun2,LIU Liang2   

  1. (1. College of Food Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China;2. The Sericulture and
    Farm Produce Processing Research Institute of Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangdong Open Access Laboratory of
    Agricultural Product Processing, Guangzhou 510610, China
  • Received:2008-10-31 Revised:2009-06-15 Online:2009-08-15 Published:2010-12-29
  • Contact: XU Yu-juan2,*, E-mail:xyj6510@126.com

Abstract:

A GC-MS method was developed for the fatty acid composition analysis of litchi pulp. Fatty acids were extracted from litchi pulp using a mixture of chloroform and methanol (2:1, V/V) and esterfied with methanol prior to GC-MS. A total of 16 fatty acids were isolated and identified, and most of them were unsaturated fatty acids, especially the content of 9-octadecenoic acid was the highest (44.405% of total fatty acids) followed by hexadecanoic acid (25.144%) and 9,12-octadecadienoic acid (18.905%). On the whole, straight-chain saturation fatty acids (SFA) accounted for 28.44%, monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFA) 52.46% and polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) 19.11%.

Key words: litchi pulp, fatty acid, GC-MS

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