Essential fatty acids of pitaya (dragon fruit) seed oil

Food Chemistry

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 561-564

  Ariffin, Abdul Azis ^a   Bakar, Jamilah ^a   Tan, Chin Ping ^a   Rahman, Russly Abdul ^a   Karim, Roselina ^a   Loi, Chia Chun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Essential fatty acids; Linoleic; Linolenic; Pitaya; Seed oil

Indexed keywords

EID: 58749107493     PISSN: 03088146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2008.09.108     Document Type: Article

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