Research Article

Chemical Composition and Antioxidant Capacity of Lepidium sativum Seeds from Four Regions of Morocco

Table 3

Fatty acid composition (%) of LSS oil from the four regions studied.

Fatty acidBARMTFHZ

Myristic C14 : 00.10 ± 0.00ab0.10 ± 0.00a0.10 ± 0.00a0.11 ± 0.00b
Palmitic C16 : 010.09 ± 0.35a9.98 ± 0.00ab9.86 ± 0.06b9.67 ± 0.00c
Palmitoleic C16 : 10.21 ± 0.00a0.20 ± 0.00b0.23 ± 0.00a0.23 ± 0.00a
Stearic C 18 : 03.17 ± 0.03a3.32 ± 0.00b3.37 ± 0.00b3.37 ± 0.00b
Oleic C18 : 124.08 ± 0.01a23 ± 0.00b23.37 ± 0.00c23.84 ± 0.00d
Linoleic C18 : 212.20 ± 0.05ab12.09 ± 0.00a12.19 ± 0.00ab12.27 ± 0.00b
Linolenic C18 : 333.65 ± 0.29a33.07 ± 0.00b33.26 ± 0.00c33.57 ± 0.46a
Arachidic C20 : 03.34 ± 0.04a3.39 ± 0.00a3.45 ± 0.00a3.72 ± 0.11b
Gadoleic C20 : 113.08 ± 0.02a12.29 ± 0.00b12.48 ± 0.00c12.94 ± 0.00d
Saturated fatty acid16.7216.7916.7216.87
Unsaturated fatty acid83.2580.6581.5382.85

The data are the mean of three replicates (n = 3e ± SEM); means followed by similar superscript letters in the same row are not different ().