FOOD SCIENCE ›› 2011, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (4): 148-151.doi: 10.7506/spkx1002-6630-201104031

• Analysis & Detection • Previous Articles     Next Articles

Character and Fatty Acid Composition of Silkworm Pupal Oil

PAN Wen-juan,FANG Ting-ting,LIAO Ai-mei,ZHANG Hai-xiang,WEI Zhao-jun   

  1. 1. School of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China; 2. Department of Life Science, Hefei Normal University, Hefei 230061, China
  • Online:2011-03-12 Published:2017-04-06

Abstract: In order to determine the types and relative contents of fatty acids in 4 kinds of silkworm pupal oil, oil transesterification was carried out with KOH/CH3OH, followed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometric analysis. Results indicated that acid values, saponification values and peroxidation values differed significantly among the 4 kinds of pupal oil. All the four tested materials contained the following major components: linolenic acid (LNA), palmitic acid, stearic acid, oleic acid andα-linolenic acid, which exhibited different relative contents. Among them, the relative content of unsaturated fatty acids in oak silkworm pupal oil was the highest, which was up to 77.29% and castor silkworm pupal oil contained the mostα-linolenic acid, with a relative content of 50.52%. Desilked pupal oil contained more unsaturated fatty acids than silkworm pupal oil.

Key words: silkworm pupal oil, fatty acid compostion, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry

CLC Number: