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Can the dietary element content of virgin argan oils really be used for adulteration detection?
Faez A E Mohammed1, Rahma Bchitou, Ahmed Bouhaouss
1Department of Chemistry, University Mohammed V-Agdal Rabat, Morocco. Faez89@hotmail.fr
Abstract:
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.
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