Fat content and fatty acid composition of oils extracted from selected wild-gathered tropical plant seeds from Nigeria

JAOCS, Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society

Volumn 75, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1031-1035

  Ezeagu, Ikechukwu E ^a   Petzke, Klaus J ^b   Lange, Erika ^b   Metges, Cornelia C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

^b GERMAN INSTITUTE OF HUMAN NUTRITION   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fat content; Fatty acid composition; Legume seeds; Linolenic acid; Nigeria; Soybean; Tropical seeds

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032137041     PISSN: 0003021X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11746-998-0282-6     Document Type: Article

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