Table 1.
Proximate compositional analysis of the whole Nannochloropsis sp. biomass used for protein and peptide generation in this study and extracted protein from the same biomass, compared to compositional analysis carried out for Nannochloropsis sp. previously.
| Species | Proteins [% DW] |
Lipids [% DW] |
Carbohydrates [% DW] |
Other [% DW] |
References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Nannochloropsis sp. biomass (this study) Nannochloropsis sp. protein extract (this study) |
27.95 ± 1.42 26.16 + 0.4 |
1.25 ± 0.39 0.38 ± 0.3 |
n/d n/d |
Ash 23.18 ± 2.59; Moisture 6.37 ± 0.75 27.78 ± 0.13 |
This study This study |
| Nannochloropsis gaditana | 46.2 ± 0.3 | 31.9 ± 0.6 | 15.8 ± 0.4 | Ash 6.4 ± 0.0 | Verspreet et al., 2021 [6] |
| Nannochloropsis oculata | 30.4 ± 1.8 | 20.5 ± 1.2 | 37.1 ± 1.7 | Mineral, fiber, etc. 11.1 ± 0.8 | Qian et al., 2013 [34] |
| N. oculata | 31.0 ± 0.0 | 1.3 ± 0.0 | 17.8 ± 0.1 | Ash 32.9 ± 0.0 Fiber 4.4 ± 0.0 |
Samarakoon et al., 2013 [35] |
| N. oculata | 30.5 | 8.0 | 19.6 | Ash 30.6 | Sanjeewa et al., 2016 [36] |
| N. gaditana | 28.0 | 18.4 | 45.0 | - | Nacer et al., 2020 [10] |
| Nannochloropsis sp. | 31.7 ± 0.1 | 15.0 ± 0.1 | 9.0 ± 0.4 | Ash 27.3 ± 0.2 | Fithriani et al., 2020 [37] |