Table 5.

Fatty acids content of edible insects (g/100 g edible portion) [29,30,35,43,44,45,49].

	Acheta domesticus A [29,35,44]	Acheta domesticus L [43,44,45]	Tenebrio molitor L [30,35,44,45]	Zophobas morio L [35,43,44]	Gonimbrasia belina L [49]	Galleria mellonella L [43,44]
SFA	2.28	2.51	2.32	5.15	4.9	6.48
C 10:0	0.011	0.007	-	0.01	-	0.01
C 12:0	<0.02	0.007	<0.02	0.01	<0.1	<0.01
C 14:0	0.04	0.06	0.29	0.17	<0.1	0.04
C 15:0	<0.02	0.01	<0.02	0.04	-	<0.01
C 16:0	1.56	1.72	2.29	3.59	3.2	5.97
C 17:0	0.02	0.02	<0.02	0.075	-	0.01
C 18:0	0.58	0.65	0.39	1.15	1.7	0.41
C 20:0	0.04	0.03	0.03	0.03	<0.1	0.02
MUFA	1.694	1.77	2.51	4.46	1.7	8.35
C 14:1	0.02	-	-	0.01	-	<0.01
C 15:1	-	0.01	-	0.01	-	<0.01
C 16:1	0.09	0.09	0.35	0.14	0.1	0.40
C 17:1	<0.01	0,007	0.03	0.01	-	<0.01
C 18:1	1.54	1.64	5.39	4.28	1.6	7.90
C 20:1	0.02	0.01	-	0.02	-	0.01
C 22:1	0.014	0.007	-	0.01	-	<0.01
PUFA	2.43	4.28	5.85	5.46	5.4	1.88
C 18:2 n-6	2.29	2.07	-	2.64	1.6	1.76
C 18:3 n-3	0.06	0.35	-	0.38	3.7	0.11
C 20:3 n-6	0.02	0.01	-	0.01	-	<0.01
C 20:5 n-3	0.06	0.04	-	0.03	-	0.03
PUFA/SFA	1.07	1.70	2.52	1.06	1.10	0.28
PUFA n-3	0.12	0.39	-	0.41	3.7	0.14
PUFA n-6	2.31	2.08	-	2.65	1.6	1.77
PUFA n-6/PUFA n-3	19.25	5.33	18.44	6.46	0.43	12.64
AI	0.42	0.46	0.33	0.57	0.53	0.60
TI	0.90	0.74	0.26	0.99	0.39	1.17
h/H	2.45	2.30	3.82	1.95	2.0	1.63

A—adult insect, L—larval form.