Quantitative Determination of Fatty Acids in Marine Fish and Shellfish from Warm Water of Straits of Malacca for Nutraceutical Purposes

Table 3

Monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFAs) content of samples.

Category	Samples	Monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFAs) content (mg/100 g wet sample)
		14:1	15:1	16:1	17:1	18:1 n9c	∑MUFA
Lean fish (<2% fat)	Hardtail scad	2.5^abc	1.5^ab	7.5^abc	45.7^ef	63.9^ab	121.2
	Golden snapper	2.7^abc	4.6^abc	40.7^de	6.6^ab	39.5^a	94.0
	Indian mackarel	1.8^abc	7.5^c	116.4^f	10.4^ab	158.7^ab	294.8
	Indian threadfin	1.0^ab	1.3^ab	3.3^ab	14.1^abc	18.5^a	38.3
	Malabar red snapper	1.0^ab	1.0^ab	4.4^ab	16.0^abc	119.5^ab	141.8
	Dorab wolfherring	1.0^ab	0.6^a	1.1^a	20.1^abcd	123.1^ab	145.9
	Long-tailed butterfly ray	1.6^abc	0.8^a	1.9^ab	7.7^ab	72.2^ab	84.6
	Large-scale tongue sole	0.6^a	1.4^ab	nd	10.6^ab	20.8^a	33.4
	Spanish mackarel	0.4^a	0.3^a	2.8^ab	13.8^abc	53.2^ab	70.6
Low fat fish (2–4% fat)	Black pomfret	1.8^abc	4.1^abc	13.6^abcd	20.6^abcd	98.8^ab	138.8
	Silver pomfret	1.6^abc	1.2^ab	30.9^bcde	36.0^cdef	81.5^ab	151.1
	Sixbar grouper	4.5^bcd	15.7^d	116.0^f	nd	151.0^ab	287.2
	Japanese threadfin bream	6.9^de	1.5^ab	105.3^f	28.8^bcdef	144.7^ab	287.2
	Yellowstripe scad	2.8^abc	1.9^ab	43.4^e	49.9^f	188.8^ab	286.8
	Gray eel-catfish	11.3^f	5.7^bc	nd	47.4^ef	103.7^ab	168.1
	Fourfinger threadfin	5.1^cd	2.4^ab	35.3^cde	43.2^def	241.5^ab	327.4
	Giant seaperch	3.6^abcd	2.6^ab	43.4^e	25.2^bcde	155.3^ab	230.0
	Fringescale sardinella	3.5^abcd	3.5^abc	53.0^e	51.3^f	192.0^ab	303.3
Medium fat fish (4–8% fat)	Moonfish	9.5^ef	14.8^d	nd	81.5^g	398.5^b	504.2
High fat fish (>8% fat)	Longtail shad	10.7^ef	nd	458.1^g	36.1^cdef	2554.4^c	3059.3
Shellfish	Cuttlefish	0.8^ab	2.62^ab	4.0^ab	17.2^abc	89.5^ab	114.2
	Prawn	0.7^a	1.67^ab	7.4^abc	16.9^abc	87.8^ab	114.5
	Cockles	2.9^abc	13.52^d	nd	75.9^g	303.8^ab	396.1
	Oyster	0.7^ab	2.65^ab	nd	25.1^bcde	53.9^ab	82.4

¹Categories of fish samples were based on the fat content [5].
²Different superscript lowercase letters (^a–g) in same column show significant differences at 𝑃<0.05 (Tukey post-hoc test).
³nd: not detected.