Nutritional and lipid profiles of the dorsal and ventral muscles of wild pirarucu

Autor: Carlos Andre Amaringo Cortegano, Leandro Cesar de Godoy, Maria Eugênia Petenuci, Jesuí Vergílio Visentainer, Elizabeth Gusmão Affonso, Ligia Uribe Gonçalves
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira, Vol 52, Iss 4, Pp 271-276 (2017)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1678-3921
0100-204x
DOI: 10.1590/s0100-204x2017000400007
Popis: Abstract: The objective of this work was to analyze the proximate and fatty acid composition of the dorsal and ventral muscles of wild pirarucu (Arapaima gigas) captured from a Brazilian Amazonian lake. Dorsal and ventral muscles were dissected out, freeze-dried, vacuum-packed, and had the proximate and fatty acid composition analyzed. Ash, total proteins, and lipids were inversely proportional to moisture and had higher levels in the ventral muscles. Twenty-seven fatty acids were quantified in both muscles without significant differences between them, except for the heneicosylic, palmitoleic, γ-linolenic, and dihomo-γ-linolenic acids. Saturated and monounsaturated fatty acids were predominant in both muscles. The eicosapentaenoic (EPA) and docosahexaenoic (DHA) acids were quantitatively similar: 9.25 (dorsal) to 10.14 (ventral) and 8.50 (dorsal) to 10.63 (ventral) mg g-1 of total lipids, respectively. The EPA+DHA content of the dorsal and ventral muscles were 113.25 and 165.78 mg 100 g-1, respectively. The ratios of polyunsaturated/saturated (0.54 and 0.59 for the dorsal and ventral muscles, respectively), n-3/n-6 (0.20 and 0.21), and hypocholesterolemic/hypercholesterolemic fatty acids (1.41 and 1.45) ratios, as well as the atherogenicity (0.59 and 0.53) and thrombogenicity (1.02 and 0.94) indices, indicate that pirarucu muscleis a good dietary source of EPA+DHA, and its nutritional lipid quality can be beneficial for human health.
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