Table 2.

Proximate composition of claw muscle tissues of the three crab species under analysis: comparison with literature data. Mean values, SE not reported. For literature data, means ± 95% confidence intervals are reported in italics. For the sake of comparison, literature information on other crab species of economic interest are reported at the bottom of the table.

Species	Moisture(%)	Protein (%)	Ash (%)	References
Callinectes sapidus	80.12	15.13	1.63	Present study
81.20	16.10	1.60	Thompson and Farragut, 1982
82.05	15.55	1.55	Wheaton and Lawson, 1985a
82.34	14.86	1.64	Gökoðlu and Yerlikaya, 2003b
78.02	19.55		Küçükgülmez et al., 2006
80.9 ± 2.75	16.51 ± 2.9	1.6 ± 0.08
Eriphia verrucosa	78.03	18.13	1.81	Present study
76.13	19.66	2.35	Kaya et al., 2009
72.24	17.12	2.34	Altinelataman and Dincer, 2007
	22.6		Demirbaş et al., 2013c
74.19 ± 8.37	19.79 ± 5.04	2.35 ± 0.02
Cancer pagurus	77.96	17.02	2.25	Present study
76.77	18.4	2.1	Barrento et al., 2010
76.3	19.1	2.2	Maulvault et al., 2012
76.54 ± 1.01	18.75 ± 1.51	2.15 ± 0.22
Carcinus maenas	78.7	17.1		Skonberg and Perkins, 2002
Carcinus mediterraneus	79–81	17.8–18.2		Cherif et al., 2008
Eriocheir sinensis	78.8	18.9	1.89	Chen et al., 2007
Maja brachydactyla	79.2	15.7	2.55	Marques et al., 2010
Scylla serrata	84.4	14.3	1.67	Benjakul and Sutthipan, 2009

^aaverages of 77.4–86.7 (%moisture) 11.9–19.2 (%protein) and 1.3–1.8 (%ash).

^baverage of 81.58–83.1 (%moisture) 14.71–15 (%protein) and 1.39–1.89 (%ash).

^caverage of 19.4–25.8(%protein).