Table 2.

Fatty acid compositions of mature T. molitor larvae.

Fatty acid	weight percent (n = 4)
C12:0	0.25 ± 0.02
C14:0	2.17 ± 0.04
C15:0	0.13 ± 0.00
C16:0	15.63 ± 0.19
C16:1	1.63 ± 0.05
C17:0	0.29 ± 0.01
C17:1	0.12 ± 0.01
C18:0	5.97 ± 0.16
C18:1	30.21 ± 0.36
C18:2	40.53 ± 0.34
C18:3	0.72 ± 0.01
C20:0	0.37 ± 0.01
C20:1	0.19 ± 0.00
C20:2	0.61 ± 0.11
C22:0	0.53 ± 0.01
C22:1	0.11 ± 0.02
C24:0	0.21 ± 0.06
Total SFA	25.55
Total MUFA	32.26
Total PUFA	41.25

Note: The values are shown the percentage of total FAs as means ± SE. n represents the number of independent samples.