Some important aspects of sterol analysis of vegetable oils

Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences: Chemistry

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 59-66

  Mäeorg, Erkki ^a   Lääniste, Peeter ^a   Jõudu, Juhan ^a   Mäeorg, Uno ^b  

^a ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

GC analysis; Phytosterol; Vegetable oil

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547276601     PISSN: 14060124     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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