Table 1.
Elemental inorganic and organic composition of enzymatic seaweeds’ extracts.
| EA_S. muticum Alcalase |
EA_O. pinnatifida Viscozyme |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (mg/mglyophilized extract) | Ratio 1 | (mg/mglyophilized extract) | Ratio 1 | |||
| Inorganic | Macro elements | K | 407 ± 13 | 7.1 | 174 ± 3 | 6.7 |
| Na | 66 ± 2 | 1.8 | 222 ± 3 | 2.4 | ||
| Ca | 2.31 ± 0.06 | 0.3 | 8.34 ± 0.04 | 1.5 | ||
| Mg | 29.3 ± 0.3 | 2.0 | 36.8 ± 0.8 | 7.7 | ||
| P | 11.6 ± 0.5 | 5.1 | 6.30 ± 0.09 | 3.6 | ||
| Micro elements | Zn | 0.033 ± 0.002 | 1.3 | 0.34 ± 0.02 | 5.9 | |
| B | 0.319 ± 0.004 | 3.0 | 0.28 ± 0.01 | 2.2 | ||
| Mn | 0.045 ± 0.004 | 4.1 | 0.34 ± 0.06 | 29.2 | ||
| Fe | 0.17 ± 0.02 | 0.9 | 1.8 ± 0.1 | 4.9 | ||
| Al | <LOD | - | 0.085 ± 0.07 | 0.6 | ||
| Cu | 0.065 ± 0.002 | 14.4 | 0.026 ± 0.001 | 5.3 | ||
| Ni | <LOD | - | 0.20 ± 0.01 | - | ||
| Pb | 0.040 ± 0.001 | - | 0.020 ± 0.001 | - | ||
| Organic | %N | 2.5 | - | 1.3 | - | |
| %C | 17.1 | - | 16.8 | - | ||
| %H | 2.5 | - | 3.5 | - | ||
| %S | 0.7 | - | 1.7 | - | ||
1 Ratio = content in lyophilized extract/content in dry seaweed; values of organic elements are presented as average of triplicate samples. LOD: Limit of Detection.