Free gossypol in cottonseed meal and sesame oil was measured by spectrophotometric meth- ods of aniline and phloroglucinol respectively. The results indicated that the content of free gossypol estimated by spectrophotometric methods of phloroglucinol was higher than that of aniline for the same sample. In terms of the recovery of the standard addition, the desired recovery could be obtained by spectrophotometric detection of aniline only when free gossypol in the sample extract was in an appro- priate range. However, in all of the sample extracts the recovery was 100%-108.8% by spectrophoto- m...