The objective of the present study was to explore the possibilities of the direct analysis of vegetable oils by normal-phase HPLC-DAD to evaluate the amounts of the main oxidation products of triacylglycerols containing linoleate, i.e. hydroperoxy-, keto- and hydroxy-dienes. A follow-up of oxidation at 40 °C of trilinolein, used as a simplified model lipid system, high-linoleic sunflower oil and high-oleic sunflower oil was performed to evaluate samples with different fatty acid compositions and different oxidation levels. The results showed that the HPLC-DAD method proposed allows for determining the concentrations of mono-hydroperoxydienes in edible oils without applying any isolation or derivatization step. The method was found to be direct, sensitive (LOQ 0.06 mmol/kg oil), precise (CV ≤ 5%) and also accurate, with 99% of analyte recovery. It also enabled the estimation of the minor amounts of ketodienes, but not those of hydroxydienes, which presented wide chromatographic bands and coeluted with a number of different minor oxidation compounds.
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