3.3. Oil composition
According to Folstar (1985), the main fatty acids of green coffee beans are: linoleic acid (41.2–42.6%), palmitic (35.2–36.7%), oleic (9.5–11.9%), stearic (7.2–9.7%), linolenic (1.3–2.7%), arachidic (0.3–1.5%) and myristic acid (0.2%). Analyses of the oil extracted from 10 species of Coffea showed the same main fatty acids in varied proportions ( Table 3).