Oil content and fatty acid composition analysis of camellia seeds oleifera in Jiang-xi
The oil contents of 38 Camellia oleifera seed were determined, and the fatty acid compositions of the camellia seed oils were analyzed by GC. The results indicate that: the oil content was between 20.48%~49.84%, and the average was 37.0%. Camellia oleifera seed oil was mainly composed of palmitic acid, stearic acid, oleic acid, linoleic acid and eicosenoic acid. The average content of palmitic acid was 8.19%, the average content of stearic acid 2.48%, the average content of oleic acid 81.02%, the average content of inoleic acid 7.74%, and the average content of palmitic acid 0.46%. The average percentage of unsaturated fatty of oleic acid and linoleic acid was 88.76%, the result shows that the camellia oleifera seed oil was the high quality of vegetable oil.