Abstract

Mita Dutta¹, Pinak Dutta²*

DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.13005/ojc/290428

The nutritional capacity of the fish Monopterus chuchia in terms of its fatty acid content was investigated to get an insight of their fatty acid composition in their most consumed part i.e. their muscle tissue. Our investigation shows the presence of SFA’s like caproic acid, caprylic acid, palmitic acid, pentadecanoic acid, heptadecanoic acid, behenic acid, MUFA’s like myristoleic acid, palmitoleic acid, oleic acid and nutritionally important PUFA’s like Eicosapentaenoic acid, docosahexaenoic acid in major amount. Erucic acid, which is reported to be an anti-nutritional factor, is present in extremely low concentration. Thus the fish which is generally consumed by very few can be farmed as a cheap nutritional source for the masses.

Monopterus chuchia; fatty acid profile; PUFA; MUFA; SFA ;Palmitoleic acid

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