Research Article

FAME Storage Time in an Optimized Natural Antioxidant Mixture

Table 4

Storage time (25°C), in days, obtained according to simplex-centroid design of experiments.

TreatmentMixtureaStorage time/dEquationb

1(1; 0; 0)310T = −15.52 ln[ST] + 114.040.9987
2(0; 1; 0)535T = −11.4 ln[ST] + 96.620.9969
3(0; 0; 1)242T = −14.39 ln[ST] + 103.960.9776
4(1/2; 1/2; 0)363T = −14.21 ln[ST] + 108.770.9993
5(1/2; 0; 1/2)189T = −18.15 ln[ST] + 120.140.9846
6(0; 1/2; 1/2)237T = −16.53 ln[ST] + 115.391
7(1/3; 1/3; 1/3)252T = −17.31 ln[ST] + 120.700.9991
8(1/3; 1/3; 1/3)276T = −16.65 ln[ST] + 118.560.9999
9(1/3; 1/3; 1/3)263T = −16.98 ln[ST] + 119.620.9999
Control239T = −14.41 ln[ST] + 103.890.9926

(% rosemary; % oregano; % basil); b( : temperature,°C; [ST]: storage Time, d).