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. 2012 Dec 23;2013:284329. doi: 10.1155/2013/284329

Table 2.

Saturated fatty acids (SFAs) content of samples.

Category Samples Saturated fatty acids (SFA) content (mg/100 g wet sample)
8:0 12:0 14:0 15:0 16:0 17:0 18:0 24:0 SFA
Lean fish
(<2% fat)
Hardtail scad 42.2ab 1.4abcd 69.8a 18.6abc 531.7a 45.2a nd nd 708.8
Golden snapper 152.9bcd 0.7abc 9.6a 8.5ab 203.7a 21.5a 1.8a 20.1abcd 418.7
Indian mackarel 139.0abcd 0.7abc 64.1a 9.5ab 313.7a 22.8a 35.7bcd 2.3ab 587.8
Indian threadfin 98.9abcd 0.9abc 10.3a 6.8a 134.7a 17.7a 4.8ab 33.4bcde 307.4
Malabar red snapper 112.8abcd 0.9abc 28.8a 5.7a 373.7a 31.8a nd 4.3ab 557.9
Dorab wolfherring 72.2abc 1.4abcd 39.3a 7.6a 395.9a 21.1a nd nd 537.4
Long-tailed butterfly ray 140.1abcd nd 4.6a 2.9a 129.8a 11.3a nd nd 288.8
Large-scale tongue sole 80.7abc 0.3ab 7.5a 5.4a 95.1a 15.2a 1.5a 36.8cde 242.4
Spanish mackarel 86.3abcd 0.4ab 16.1a 5.9a 183.7a 9.5a nd 21.0abcde 322.8

Low fat fish
(2–4% fat)
Black pomfret 214.8d nd 46.9a 18.0abc 549.5a 48.5a 6.9ab 50.4def 935.0
Silver pomfret 40.0ab 1.1abc 102.4a 15.5ab 590.2a 38.6a 11.2abc 79.7f 878.7
Sixbar grouper 186.1cd 1.6abcd 65.6a 19.8abc 775.6a 62.1a 6.4ab 191.6g 1308.7
Japanese threadfin bream 34.0ab 5.2de 102.6a 28.2abcd 996.5a 36.8a 8.0ab nd 1211.2
Yellowstripe scad 101.1abcd 1.7abcd 69.5a 19.9abc 560.8a 65.7a nd 10.9ab 829.6
Gray eel-catfish 35.3ab 3.9bcde 159.7a 24.3abc 717.8a 359.0a 40.9cd nd 1340.8
Fourfinger threadfin 52.9ab 2.5abcd 127.2a 33.7bcd 677.0a 31.9a 7.0ab 21.1abcde 953.4
Giant seaperch 79.5abc 4.4cde 102.5a 15.5ab 928.2a 76.7a 8.0ab 52.4ef 1267.2
Fringescale sardinella 21.5a 2.2abcd 242.0a 43.1cd 822.2a 108.1a 33.5bcd nd 1272.8

Medium fat fish (4–8% fat) Moonfish 383.9e 7.2e 335.3a 53.4d 1308.0a 431.6a 31.1abcd 21.9abcde 2572.4

High fat fish (>8% fat) Longtail shad 20.3a 21.1f 2805.4b 113.8e 12542.6b 2034.5b 82.5e nd 17620.2

Shellfish Cuttlefish 93.7abcd 0.7abc 30.9a 9.3ab 394.5a 7.0a nd 33.0bcde 569.1
Prawn 139.9abcd 0.3ab 7.0a 11.4ab 125.3a 24.5a nd nd 308.4
Cockles 37.0ab 2.8abcd 69.9a 12.4ab 359.2ª 130.3ª 9.5abc 22.2abcde 643.3
Oyster 30.2ab 0.5abc 41.4ª 10.0ab 325.8ª 80.3a 62.6de 13.0abc 563.7

1Categories of fish samples were based on the fat content [5].

2Different superscript lowercase letters (a–g) in same column show significant differences at P < 0.05 (Tukey post-hoc test).

3nd: not detected.