Free Radical Scavenging Capacity, Carotenoid Content, and NMR Characterization of Blighia sapida Aril Oil

Table 3

¹³C Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of lipid extracts.

Carbon	Assignment	Ackee oil	Coconut oil	Soybean oil
		(ppm)	(ppm)	(ppm)
α-CH3	Acyl chains	14.02	14.08	14.06
β-CH3	Acyl chains	22.62	22.57; 22.65	21.0, 22.62
C3	Acyl chains	25.57; 26.87	24.49, 24.82,	25.57
			24.86, 25.58
C8–11 (oleyl)	Allylic	27.12	27.12	27.13
C8–14 (linoleyl)		27.17	27.17	27.14
	Acyl chains	29.01-29.74	28.89-29.73	29.00-29.74
C16	Linoleyl	31.50, 31.58	31.21, 31.49,	30.34, 30.76
		31.78, 31.90,	31.63. 31.84,	31.49, 31.77
		31.92	31.89	31.90, 31.91
α- C2	Acyl chains	33.91, 33.93	33.97	32.52, 33.89
β-C2	Acyl chains	34.07, 34.48,	34.14	34.05
		34.62
α-CH2O	Glycerol moiety	61.98	62.02	61.97, 64.90
β-CH2O	Glycerol moiety	68.88	68.85	68.87
β-C9	Oleyl	127.83, 128.01	127.84, 129.62	127.06-127.99
β-C10	Oleyl	129.54, 129.57	129.90, 130.07	128.01-128.38
		129.68,		129.54-129.97
		129.85,129.99		131.70
α-C1	Glycerol moiety	172.52	172.70	172.46
β-C1	Glycerol moiety	172.91, 172.93	173.10	172.83, 172.86