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The qualitative and quantitative analyses of phospholipids in chloroform-methanol extracted crude and hexane extracted deodorized soybean oils were carried out by High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC). The phosphorus contents in hexane extracted crude, degummed, refiend, bleached and deodorized soybean oil were 510, 120, 5, 1.4 and 1 ppm, respectively. The chloroform-methanol extracted crude soybean oil had 800 ppm phosphorus. The phospholipids found in crude oil were phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylinositol, phosphatidylserine and phosphatidic acid. Only phosphatidylchonine and phosphatidylethanolamine were detected in the deodorized soybean oil. The HPLC method described in this report can separate and detect individual phospholipids in soybean oil at 0.1 ppm level in 30 min.
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