Evaluation of Toxic, Cytotoxic, Mutagenic, and Antimutagenic Activities of Natural and Technical Cashew Nut Shell Liquids Using the Allium cepa and Artemia salina Bioassays

Table 1

The investigated components of iCNSL and tCNSL.

Natural iCNSL
Peak	Retention time (min)	Compounds	Yield
1	36.80	Metilcardol	2.90
2	37.60	Monounsaturated anacardic acid	82.90
3	37.62	Diunsaturated anacardic acid	8.00
4	37.70	Anacardic acid	3.60
5	38.05	Unidentified	2.60
Technical tCNSL
Peak	Retention time (min)	Compounds	Yield
6	18.08	Monounsaturated cardanol	79.40
7	18.10	Diunsaturated cardanol	8.67
8	18.17	Cardanol	3.23
9	20.71	Unidentified	8.70

Analysed in the form of methyl esters.