Abstract
Fatty acid (FA) composition of suet oil (SO) was measured by precolumn methylesterification (PME) optimized using a Box–Behnken design (BBD) and gas chromatography/electron ionization-quadrupole mass spectrometry (GC–EI-qMS). A spectral library (NIST 08) and standard compounds were used to identify FAs in SO representing 90.89% of the total peak area. The ten most abundant FAs were derivatized into FA methyl esters (FAMEs) and quantified by GC–EI-qMS; the correlation coefficient of each FAME was 0.999 and the lowest concentration quantified was 0.01 μg/mL. The range of recovery of the FAMEs was 82.1%–98.7% (relative standard deviation 2.2%–6.8%). The limits of quantification (LOQ) were 1.25–5.95 μg/L. The number of carbon atoms in the FAs identified ranged from 12 to 20; hexadecanoic and octadecanoic acids were the most abundant. Eighteen samples of SO purchased from Qinghai, Anhui and Jiangsu provinces of China were categorized into three groups by principal component analysis (PCA) according to the contents of the most abundant FAs. The results showed SOs samples were rich in FAs with significantly different profiles from different origins. The method described here can be used for quality control and SO differentiation on the basis of the FA profile.
Highlights
Suet oil (SO), a fatty oil obtained from the domestic goat (Capra hircus Linnaeus) or sheep (Ovis aries Linnaeus), has been used in the food industry [1] and the medicine industry [2]
It was hypothesized that the beneficial effects of Epimedium could be attributed to promotion of the intestinal absorption of drugs by the formation of micelles owing to the action of its Fatty acid (FA) ingredients [5]
The molecular species detected after methylesterification were FA methyl esters (FAMEs) rather than FAs
Summary
Suet oil (SO), a fatty oil obtained from the domestic goat (Capra hircus Linnaeus) or sheep (Ovis aries Linnaeus), has been used in the food industry [1] and the medicine industry [2]. The methods used for separation and measurement of FAs are mainly chromatographic, including thin-layer chromatography [6], high-performance liquid chromatography [7,8], gas chromatography [9,10,11], supercritical fluid chromatography [12] and liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry [13,14,15,16]. These methods cannot identify major chemical components rapidly and accurately.
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