Bashar Mudhaffar Abdullah
Clinical Laboratory Technology Department, Al-Rafidain University College, Baghdad, Iraq
Title: Fatty Acids Composition, Triacylglycerol Profiles and Spectroscopy Study of Pure Olive Oil
Biography
Biography: Bashar Mudhaffar Abdullah
Abstract
This study was carried out to determine the fatty acids (FAs) composition, triacylglycerol profiles (TAG) and spectroscopy study of pure olive oil. Gas chromatography (GC) was used to determine the FAs of pure olive oil which is consisting of three major long chain FAs were detected in the pure olive oil, which is oleic 52.82%, linoleic 28.55% and palmitic 11.12% acids. Other FA composition was less than 10% and comprised of stearic 4.72% acid. High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) was used to determine the TAG. The major TAG peaks in the study of pure olive oil were the OLL with 17.39%, OLO 23.14% and PLO with 10.92%. The FTIR spectroscopy showed the (C=C) at 3470cm-1. The results of this study showed that the pure olive oil is plausible source of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) to be developed in the future for industrial applications.