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. 2014 May 23;6(5):2104–2114. doi: 10.3390/nu6052104

Table 2.

Fatty acid profile 1 (mg/g) of unfermented bread crumbs, submerged liquid fermentation and static fermentation with bread crumbs, for Thraustochytrium sp. AH-2.

C16:0 C18:0 C18:1n9 C18:2n6 C18:3n3 C20:5n3 C22:5n3 C22:6n3 others
Unfermented bread crumbs fatty acid profile
2.20 1.50 3.10 1.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.50
Submerged liquid fermentation fatty acid profile 2
32.33 a 11.82 a 63.19 a 2.76 a 0.00 a 3.03 4.32 23.74 33.35
Static fermentation fatty acid profile 3
25.9 b,4 16.5 b 29.0 b 12.9 b 1.2 b 0.00 0.57 2.40 14.40
20.4 b,5 13.2 b 22.6 b 11.2 b 1.2 b 0.00 0.00 1.30 11.50

1 Palmitic acid (C16:0); stearic acid (C18:0); oleic acid (C18:1n9); linoleic acid (C18:2n6); linolenic (C18:3n3); EPA (C20:5n3); DPA (C22:5n3); DHA (C22:6n3); 2 Submerged liquid fermentation media with 3% glucose incubated for 7 days at 20 °C with shaking speed of 120 rpm; 3 Static fermentation with same medium composition as submerged liquid fermentation, with breadcrumbs as 5 and 10 g substituted for glucose in 1litre of 70% ASW at pH 6; 4 Static fermentation with 0.5% BC, incubated at 20 °C for 7 days; 5 Static fermentation with 1% BC, incubated at 20 °C for 5 days; a,b indicates statistically significant difference for submerged liquid fermentation (a) and static fermentation (b) (p < 0.05).