Abstract
A method for simultaneous determination of 14 functional components of squalene, tocopherols and phytosterols in edible oil was established based on solid phase extraction (SPE), saponification and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Depending on the characteristic ions of the target substances, 14 compounds were well separated in 20 min. The limit of detections (LOD) and the limit of quantifications (LOQ) were in the range of 0.010–0.050 and 0.033–0.167 μg/mL, respectively. Method validation showed linearity of calibration curves (α = 0.05) with the recoveries at three spiked levels between 91.29 and 111.93%. The relative standard deviation (RSD) of intra-day and inter-day precisions were less than 6.11%. The results derived from the established method demonstrated a wide variation of detected compounds in 15 kinds of common edible vegetable oils. The proposed SPE combined with saponification and GC-MS provides a rapid and simple method for the simultaneous determination of the functional compounds in oils and detection of the adulterated vegetable oil.
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