Qualitative and quantitative detection of peanut oil adulteration in sesame oil
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2023-06
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Institute of Chemistry Ceylon
Abstract
T he present study was focused on developing rapid, costeffective, and straightforward methods for qualitative and quantitative detection of peanut oil (PO) adulteration in sesame oil (SO). In Sri Lanka, due to the higher price and demand of SO, merchants intentionally add cheaper and lower quality edible oils mainly the PO foreconomic gains.
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Sesame oil, Adulteration, Chromogenic reaction, Rapid test, UV Spectrophotometry