Argan oil specifications
Product: Virgin argan oil.
Synonyms: Oil of the fruit of the Argania (Argania spinosa)
Insoluble in water, slightly soluble in ethanol 90°, soluble in chloroform and hexane.
- Density at 20°.
- Acidity (Expressed in % of oleic acid)
- Peroxide value (in meqO2/Kg)
- Saponification value
- % unsaponifiable
- 0.906 to 0.916
- 0.2 to 1
- 0 to 5
- 180-199
- 0.5 to 0.9
- Myristic acid (C 14 : 0)
- Pentadecanoic acid (C 15 : 0)
- Palmitic acid (C 16 : 0)
- Palmitoleic acid (C 16 : 1)
- Heptadecanoic acid (C 17 : 0)
- Stearic acid (C 18 : 0)
- Oleic acid (C 18 : 1)
- Linoleic acid (C 18 : 2)
- Linolenic acid (C 18 : 3)
- Arachidic acid (C 20 : 0)
- Gadoleic acid (C 20 : 1)
- Behenic acid (C 22 : 0)
Trans fatty acids
- C18 : 1 T
- C12 : 2 T
- ≤ 0.15
- ≤ 0.05
- 12.0 – 13.0
- ≤ 0.12
- ≤ 0.10
- 5.0 – 7.0
- 43.0 – 49.1
- 29.3 – 36.0
- ≤ 0.1
- 0.3 – 0.5
- 0.4 – 0.5
- ≤ 0.2
- ≤ 0.0.2
- ≤ 0.03
- Sterol composition
- Schottenol
- Spinasterol
- Δ-7 – Avenasterol
- Stigmasta -8.22-dien-3β-ol
- Campesterol
- Cholesterol
- Total sterols
- 44.0 – 49.0%
- 34.0 – 44.0 %
- 4.0 – 7.0%
- 3.0 – 5.7%
- ≤ 0.4%
- ≤ 0.4 %
- 130 – 230
- Mg/100 g
- Alpha-tocopherol (vitamin E)
- Beta-tocopherol
- Gamma-tocopherol
- Delta-tocopherol
Total tocopherols
- 4.0 – 9.0%
- 0.1 – 0.3%
- 80.0 – 91.0%
- 5.0 – 10.2%
- 60 – 90 mg/100g
- Triterpenic alcohols
The main ones are tirucallol, β-amyrin, butyrospermol and lupeol
- 130 – 180 mg/100g
- Stigmasta-3.5 diene content
- Benzo-a-pyrene content
- Palmitic acid content in position 2 in the triglycerides
- < 0.05 ppm
- < 0.15 ppm
- < 0.5%
