Lipids in Health and Disease

Table 2 Sterols (g. kg ^-1 of total lipids) of Acacia seed oils

From: Minor lipid components of some Acacia species: potential dietary health benefits of the unexploited seeds

Phytosterols	Species
	*Acacia ligulata*	*Acacia cyclops*	*Acacia salicina*	*Acacia cyanophylla*
Cholesterol	tr ^††	0.22 ^A	0.06 ^C	0.07 ^B
^Δ7 cholestenol	tr	0.03 ^A	0.06 ^A	tr
Campesterol	0.08 ^A	0.20 ^A	0.13 ^A	0.20 ^A
Campestanol	0.20 ^C	0.42 ^A	0.11 ^D	0.27 ^B
Stigmasterol	0.31 ^B	0.36 ^A	0.15 ^C	0.29 ^B
^Δ7 stigmasterol	0.28 ^C	0.27 ^C	0.57 ^A	0.36 ^B
^Δ7 campesterol	0.35 ^C	tr	0.38 ^B	0.45 ^A
^{Δ 5,23} stigmastadienol	0.19 ^A	0.05 ^B	0.15 ^A,B	0.22 ^A
β sitosterol	4.15 ^B	5.40 ^A	3.48 ^C	4.06 ^B
^Δ5 avenasterol	0.24 ^C	1.13 ^A	0.38 ^B	0.33 ^B,C
^Δ7 sitosterol	tr	tr	0.21 ^A	0.20 ^A
^{Δ 5, 24 (25)} stigmasterol	0.09 ^C	0.18 ^A	0.12 ^B	0.20 ^A
^{Δ5, 24} stigmastadienol	0.21 ^B	0.23 ^A	0.08 ^C	tr
^Δ7 stigmastenol	1.11 ^C	2.57 ^A	1.22 ^C	1.78 ^B
Cycloartenol	0.45 ^A	0.38 ^B	0.15 ^D	0.33 ^C
^Δ7 avenasterol	0.02 ^B	0.16 ^A	0.03 ^B	0.05 ^B
^{24, methylene} cycloartanol	0.02 ^A,B	tr	0.05 ^A	0.06 ^A
Citrostadienol	0.02 ^A	tr	tr	0.05 ^A
Total phytosterols	7.70	11.62	7.33	8.94

^† Each value is the mean of duplicate analyses.
^††tr: traces.
Superscript letters with different letters in the same line of species indicate a significant difference (p <0.05) analyzed using Duncan’s multiple range test.

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