Can the dietary element content of virgin argan oils really be used for adulteration detection?

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Date publication

janvier 2013

Auteurs

Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Pr GUILLAUME Dominique


Tous les auteurs :
Mohammed FA, Bchitou R, Bouhaouss A, Gharby S, Harhar H, Guillaume D, Charrouf Z

Résumé

Levels of eight dietary elements were assessed by ICP-AES in virgin edible and beauty argan oil samples prepared from four remote locations of the argan forest, and over a three-year period. The data showed sufficiently little variability to assess that all argan oil samples present, in terms of dietary elements, a similar composition, independently from the tree location within the argan forest. Therefore, adulteration detection by trace element analysis in edible and beauty argan oil is a method that can be generalised.

Référence

Food Chem. 2013 Jan 1;136(1):105-8