Comparison of nutritional quality of fourteen wild species based on fatty acid composition, lipid health indices, and chemometric approaches unravelling their nutraceutical potential.

Fatty acid profiles of 14 species was determined by GC-MS analysis to study the nutritional quality of species based on fatty acid composition, lipid health indices, and chemometric approaches. and found to have the highest content of ALA i.e., 65.38 % and 62.79 %, respectively, recorded the highest linoleic acid content (69.69 %), while, recorded highest oleic acid (27.03 %). Health indices viz. polyunsaturated fatty acids/saturated fatty acids ratio, n-6/n-3 fatty acids ratio, atherogenicity, thrombogenicity, oxidability, oxidative stability, hypocholesterolemic/hypercholesterolemic fatty acids, and peroxidisability calculated based on the fatty acid composition revealed that all the linseed species except have healthy fatty acid composition. clearly emerges as a promising species followed by with great values across multiple indices, making them as a potential candidate for dietary or nutritional interests. The lipid profile of species could be well distinguished by two principal components by Principal Component Analysis (PCA).