COMPOSITION OF NEW SEED OILS

Abstract

The behaviour in the U.V. and I.R.-lights and the fatty acid composition by gaschromatography of the oils extracted from the seeds of 30 plant species belonging to different families were determined. Results have shown in many oils, in addition to the fundamental fatty acids, the presence of particular acids, such as octadecatetraenoic, eicosenoic and eicosentrienoic, besides epoxiacids, allenic acids and trienoic acids with an isolated trans double bond.