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. 2016 Aug 4;2016:4027437. doi: 10.1155/2016/4027437

Table 7.

Fatty acid composition of important cold water fishes.

Fatty acids (%) O. mykiss 1 T. putitora 1 S. richardsonii 1 N.  hexagonolepis 1 C. carpio 1
Saturated fatty acid (SFA)
C4–C11
C12 0.6 ± 0.1a 0.5 ± 0.0a 0.0 ± 0.0b 2.5 ± 0.9c 0.2 ± 0.0a
C13 0.1 ± 0.0a 0.0 ± 0.0b 0.0 ± 0.0b 0.0 ± 0.0b 0.0 ± 0.0b
C14 3.5 ± 1.1a 5.0 ± 1.6b 7.6 ± 1.6c 4.7 ± 0.8b 2.3 ± 0.5d
C15 0.3 ± 0.0a 0.6 ± 0.0b 0.4 ± 0.0a 0.4 ± 0.1a 0.5 ± 0.0b
C16 21.8 ± 9.8a 31.6 ± 8.9b 26.1 ± 6.5c 29.8 ± 8.9d 35.2 ± 8.7e
C17 0.5 ± 0.0a 0.5 ± 0.0a 0.6 ± 0.0a 0.6 ± 0.0a 0.7 ± 0.0b
C18 7.6 ± 1.6a 9.6 ± 2.3b 7.5 ± 2.9a 5.9 ± 1.3c 6.7 ± 1.6d
C19 0.2 ± 0.0a 0.1 ± 0.0a 0.1 ± 0.0a 0.2 ± 0.0a
C20 4.5 ± 1.3a 0.3 ± 0.0b 0.4 ± 0.1b
C22 0.4 ± 0.0

∑SFA 34.5 53.0 42.5 44.3 46.2

Monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFA)
C16:1 8.2 ± 1.6a 9.6 ± 2.2a 21.3 ± 8.9c 11.1 ± 5.6d 9.6 ± 1.6a
C17:1 0.2 ± 0.0a 0.0 ± 0.0b
C18:1 24.3 ± 6.5a 12.1 ± 4.5b 14.6 ± 5.6c 10.9 ± 3.4b 17.3 ± 5.6d
C20:1 1.2 ± 0.4a 5.6 ± 1.3b 1.2 ± 0.3a 1.6 ± 0.2a 3.9 ± 1.3c
C22:1 0.8 ± 0.1a 0.7 ± 0.1a 0.1 ± 0.0b 0.4 ± 0.0c 0.2 ± 0.0b

∑MUFA 34.7 28.1 37.3 23.9 31.0

Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA)
C18:2 ω-6 13.8 ± 3.2a 7.4 ± 1.3b 2.1 ± 0.9c 7.6 ± 1.9b 10.0 ± 2.9d
C18:3 ω-3 4.8 ± 1.2a 0.6 ± 0.0b 1.8 ± 0.6c 7.7 ± 2.5d
C18:3 ω-6 0.4 ± 0.0a 0.4 ± 0.0a 0.2 ± 0.0b
C18:4 ω-3 0.0 ± 0.0
C20:2 ω-6 0.8 ± 0.1
C20:3 ω-6 0.8 ± 0.1
C20:3 ω-3 0.5 ± 0.0a 1.0 ± 0.9b 0.5 ± 0.0a 1.4 ± 0.2b
C20:4 ω-6 2.4 ± 0.5a 1.8 ± 0.1b 0.8 ± 0.2c 2.7 ± 0.6a 3.6 ± 0.8d
C20:5 ω-3 (EPA) 2.3 ± 0.6a 4.7 ± 1.2b 9.6 ± 2.3c 7.4 ± 2.3d
C22:5 ω-3 3.2 ± 1.0
C22:6 ω-3 (DHA) 6.4 ± 1.6a 2.7 ± 0.9b 3.8 ± 1.2c 5.2 ± 1.1d 5.1 ± 1.9d

∑PUFA 31.4 18.3 19.4 31.2 23.7

ω-3 13.6 8.6 16.2 20.9 9.8
ω-6 17.8 9.7 3.2 10.3 13.9
ω-3/ω-6 0.9 0.9 4.9 2.0 0.7

1Data previously published by Sarma et al. [17].

Values are reported as mean ± standard deviation.

Values in rows sharing same superscripts are not statistically different (p < 0.05).

—, not detected.

EPA: eicosapentaenoic acid; DHA: docosahexaenoic acid.