Abstract
Free fatty acids (FFAs) in edible oils are one of the most frequently determined quality indices during production, storage, and marketing. In this study, a simple, stable and sensitive method for the simultaneous determination of saturated and unsaturated FFAs from edible oils using 2-(11 H-benzo[a]carbazol-11-yl)-ethyl-4-methylbenzenesulphonate (BCETS) as labelling reagent with fluorescence detection has been established. FFAs are derivatized by BCETS and separated on a reversed-phase Eclipse XDB-C 8 column with a gradient elution. The results indicated that all FFAs were found to be given an excellent linear response with correlation coefficients of >0.9994. The detection limits at a signal-to-noise ratio of 3 were in the range of 0.22–1.06 ng/mL. When applied to Lycium barbarum seed oils, the developed method showed good reproducibility. The effect of extraction methods including supercritical CO 2 and organic solvent extraction on the FFAs composition has also been investigated. Meanwhile, this method exhibits powerful potential for the trace analysis of short- and long-chain free fatty acids from edible oils, foodstuff and other complex samples.
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