Materials and chemicals
The seeds were removed from the ‘Tainung No. 1’ passion fruits, washed with water
and left to air-dry for 2 days. The ‘Tainung No. 1’ passion fruit seeds were from
Liuzhou, Guangxi province. All reagents were of analytical reagent grade. Fatty acid
standards were purchased from Sigma Chemical Co. (St Louis, Missouri, USA).
Distilled water was used for the analyses.