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Published in final edited form as: J Insects Food Feed. 2023 Apr 7;9(9):1187–1197. doi: 10.3920/JIFF2022.0046

Table 4. Effect of boiling time and drying temperature on the mineral composition of mopane worms.¹.

Treatment		Minerals
Boiling time (min)	Drying temperature (°C)	C (mg/100 g)	Fe (mg/100 g)	Zn (mg/100 g)	Na (mg/100 g)	Mg (mg/100 g)	Mn (mg/100 g)
0	40	69.78±0.01^b	27.90±0.04ⁱ	18.92±0.01ⁱ	3.41±0.01^a	152.05±0.02^g	4.30±0.02^f
0	50	73.24±0.02^e	18.28±0.01^f	18.34±0.02^h	4.44±0.02^d	153.37±0.01^h	4.78±0.03^h
0	60	78.26±0.02^h	22.04±0.00^h	17.77±0.01^f	6.52±0.03ⁱ	143.47±0.02^f	3.88±0.02^c
10	35.86	71.79±0.01^d	15.77±0.02^e	17.28±0.03^e	4.26±0.01^c	115.27±0.01^c	3.68±0.02^a
10	50	62.67±0.02^a	14.57±0.01^d	14.77±0.04^c	3.72±0.02^b	119.23±0.02^d	4.56±0.05^g
10	64.14	70.77±0.00^c	11.87±0.03^a	14.53±0.02^a	4.94±0.01^h	125.77±0.03^e	4.07±0.02^e
20	40	73.25±0.04^f	19.04±0.01^g	17.89±0.02^g	4.46±0.01^f	113.05±0.01^a	3.74±0.02^b
24.14	50	122.23±0.04ⁱ	14.10±0.04^b	16.40±0.01^d	4.52±0.02^g	166.56±0.01ⁱ	3.93±0.01^d
20	60	76.69±0.01^g	14.28±0.03^c	14.64±0.02^b	4.44±0.02e	113.66±0.02^b	4.90±0.01ⁱ

¹

Values are mean ± SD (n=3); different superscripts indicate significant differences (P<0.01) among the different processing treatments.