Oils in the seeds of caneberries produced in Korea

Seed and oil contents, and fatty acid compositions of oils of 20 caneberries grown in Korea were determined. Fatty acid compositions of the oils were analyzed using GC for the extracted and methylated oils from the berry seeds. The seeds comprised 4-10% (w/w) of the wet berries and accounted for 26-62% of the dry berries. Moisture and oil contents of the berry seeds were 8-17 and 13-28% (dry basis), respectively. More than 90% of the total fatty acids in the oils from the berry seeds were unsaturated. Linoleic and linolenic acids comprised 49-70 and 13-34%, respectively, of the oils in the berry seeds.