Comparative Assessment of Physical and Chemical Characteristics of Prickly Pear Seed Oil from Opuntia ficus-indica and Opuntia megacantha Varieties

Table 3

Triglyceride composition of seed oils of two prickly pear species: Opuntia ficus-indica (“Safra” and “Aakria” varieties) and Opuntia megacantha (“Derbana” variety).

Triglycerides (%)	Prickly pear species and varieties
	Opuntia ficus-indica		Opuntia megacantha
	Safra	Aakria	Derbana
LLL	25.53^b ± 0.02	26.49^c ± 0.05	24.33^a ± 0.04
OLLn + PoLL	0.18^a ± 0.00	0.17^a ± 0.00	0.20^b ± 0.00
PLLn	0.17^a ± 0.00	0.16^a ± 0.00	0.16^a ± 0.00
OLL	20.92^a ± 0.04	20.96^a ± 0.02	21.92^b ± 0.05
OOLn + PoOL	18.54^b ± 0.06	18.84^c ± 0.02	16.45^a ± 0.03
POLn	0.11^a ± 0.02	0.10^a ± 0.00	0.11^a ± 0.00
OOL + PLnP + PoOO	8.02^b ± 0.02	7.66^a ± 0.02	9.27^c ± 0.02
POL + SLL + PoOO	13.43^b ± 0.01	13.29^a ± 0.01	13.26^a ± 0.01
PPL	3.11^b ± 0.03	3.03^b ± 0.01	2.54^a ± 0.00
OOO	1.39^b ± 0.08	1.14^a ± 0.04	2.32^c ± 0.00
POO + SOL	4.57^b ± 0.08	4.24^a ± 0.01	5.06^c ± 0.00
POP	2.92^b ± 0.07	2.63^a ± 0.00	2.70^a ± 0.03
GaOO	0.38^a ± 0.03	0.32^a ± 0.00	0.34^a ± 0.00
SOO	0.39^a ± 0.03	0.38^a ± 0.01	0.51^b ± 0.00
POS	0.34^a ± 0.05	0.44^b ± 0.00	0.59^c ± 0.01
AOO	0.13^a ± 0.00	0.13^a ± 0.00	0.13^a ± 0.02
SOS	0.01^a ± 0.01	0.01^a ± 0.00	0.00^a ± 0.00

P, palmitoyl radical; Po, palmitoleyl radical; O, oleoyl radical; L, linoleoyl radical; Ln, linolenoyl radical; S, stearoyl radical; Ga, gadoleyl radical. Means (±standard errors) with the same letter within lines did not differ significantly according to the Student–Newman–Keuls test at .