“…Although the equation was applicable for the oxidation of arachidonic acid in the absence and presence of ascorbic acid, and for that of arachidonoyl ascorbate, it was not easy to apply the equation to the oxidation of the microencapsulated arachidonic acid and arachidonoyl ascorbate because of complicated phenomena, such as the diffusion of oxygen and interaction of the fatty acid with the wall material that occurred in the microcapsules (Ishido, Minemoto, Adachi, & Matsuno, 2003). Therefore, the oxidation kinetics was empirically expressed by the Weibull equation, which is flexible and has a potential for describing many deterioration kinetics (Cunha, Oliverira, & Oliverira, 1998):…”