Fast Analysis of Fatty Acids in Brans by GC/MS

User Benefits

- Increased productivity with 10 mins run time for FAME 37 - EI/CI mode in the same batch to never misidentify a target FAME peak - Constant linear velocity mode to easily convert the method to GC-FID

Introduction

Fatty acids, particularly those with a high degree of unsaturation and a carbon backbone of a middle chain length, are known as functional nutrients. Shimadzu Corporation Japan has entered the second year of the three year collaborative research with National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO) on the amount of functional nutrients (e.g. fatty acids) in foods such as brans, tea leaves and rice. As a part of the collaboration, fatty acids were quantitated in 48 bran samples. Details of the results are off limits to the public at the moment of this writing. However, the otherwise time-consuming run of the 48 samples was cut to 10 mins by optimizing a method without using a high heat ramp rate, which warranted this application news.

February 3, 2022 GMT