Table 2.
Saturated fatty acids (SFAs) content of samples.
| Category | Samples | Saturated fatty acids (SFA) content (mg/100 g wet sample) | ||||||||
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 |
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| High fat fish (>8% fat) | Longtail shad | 20.3a | 21.1f | 2805.4b | 113.8e | 12542.6b | 2034.5b | 82.5e | nd | 17620.2 |
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| 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.