MAIN COMPONENTS OF 4-METHYL-STEROL AND TRITERPENE-FRACTION OF 12 VEGETABLE FATS AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON THE STEROL ANALYSIS

4-methylsterols and triterpenes are accompanying substances of the sterols in the unsaponifiable with partly very similar chromatographic properties. In 12 different vegetable fats both content and composition of the main components of these three substance groups were investigated and their influence on the sterol analysis was found out. For most fats a thin-layer chromatographic separation of the 4-methyl-sterols and triterpenes from the sterols is necessary to make possible an exact determination of the sterol content and the sterol composition by gas chromatography.