Table 5.
Fatty acids (FA, % DM) profile of red, green, and brown seaweed species1.
| Item | Red |
Green |
Brown |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asparagopsis taxiformis | Porphyra dioica | Ulva rigida | Codium tomentosum | Ascophyllum nodosum | |
| C14:00 | 3.77 | 23.3 | 20.2 | 22.3 | 9.4 |
| C16:00 | 3.73 | 18.3 | 2.1 | 4.9 | 13.4 |
| C18:00 | 1.18 | 4.9 | 2.9 | 2.6 | 0.76 |
| C18:1 | 3.52 | 3.3 | 9.5 | 11.1 | 27.8 |
| C18:2n-6 | 7.75 | 1.7 | 1.5 | – | 7.47 |
| C20:1 | – | 0.6 | 1.2 | – | 0.22 |
| C20:2n-6 | 1.38 (C20:3) | 0.6 | 1.2 | – | 5.05 |
| C20:4n-6 | 1.19 (C20:4) | 2.7 | – | 4.5 | 17.24 |
| C20:5n-3 | 1.6 (C20: 5) | 20.5 | 1.4 | 7.9 | 7.24 |
| C22:6 |
32.77 |
– |
– |
– |
– |
| SFA | 23.17 | 37.5 | 24.1 | 30.2 | 25.1 |
| MUFA | 19.52 | 22.5 | 13.0 | 16.8 | 31.5 |
| PUFA | 46.97 | 22.6 | 13.0 | 16.8 | 43.5 |
| Ave. USFA | 66.49 | 45.1 | 26.0 | 33.6 | 75.0 |
| SFA:USFA | 0.35 | 0.83 | 0.93 | 0.90 | 0.33 |
SFA = saturated fatty acids; USFA = unsaturated fatty acids; MUFA = mono-unsaturated fatty acids; PUFA = poly-unsaturated fatty acids.
1
Sources: Cian et al. (2013), Lorenzo et al. (2017), Lopes et al. (2020), Mellouk et al. (2017). Major fatty acids were presented in this Table.