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

Table 4

Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) content of samples.

Category	Samples	Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) content (mg/100 g wet sample)
		18:2 n6t	18:2 n6c	18:3 n6	18:3 n3	20:3 n3	20:5 n3	22:6 n3	∑PUFA
Lean fish; (<2% fat)	Hardtail scad	22.5^a	30.8^a	1.6^a	117.3^a	nd	18.9^a	196.0^cdefg	387.0
	Golden snapper	105.2^ab	9.6^a	nd	365.6^ab	nd	7.3^a	18.6^ab	506.3
	Indian mackarel	23.1^a	29.3^a	nd	53.9^a	7.3^ab	53.6^a	23.3^ab	190.5
	Indian threadfin	33.2^a	5.2^a	nd	271.7^a	nd	23.7^a	82.2^abcde	415.9
	Malabar red snapper	86.1^ab	60.4^a	nd	335.0^ab	9.2^ab	24.1^a	209.9^defg	724.7
	Dorab wolfherring	36.3^a	6.4^a	nd	204.0^a	11.6^ab	23.9^a	54.3^abcd	336.5
	Long-tailed butterfly ray	11.2^a	15.1^a	nd	337.5^ab	nd	2.7^a	9.0^a	375.5
	Large-scale tongue sole	25.9^a	4.3^a	nd	111.6^a	2.5^ab	8.3^a	113.4^abcde	266.2
	Spanish mackarel	18.2^a	19.7^a	nd	178.9^a	nd	27.7^a	69.8^abcde	314.2
Low fat fish; (2–4% fat)	Black pomfret	16.8^a	45.1^a	29.06^c	272.8^a	nd	73.5^a	277.1^fg	714.3
	Silver pomfret	104.7^ab	49.5^a	10.91^b	136.2^a	6.1^ab	116.3^a	148.0^abcdefg	571.6
	Sixbar grouper	139.2^ab	119.3^a	nd	645.5^b	nd	100.9^a	197.7^cdefg	1202.5
	Japanese threadfin bream	81.6^ab	51.0^a	nd	112.2^a	nd	258.7^a	293.0^g	796.5
	Yellowstripe scad	78.6^ab	113.6^a	nd	338.1^ab	7.5^ab	97.1^a	782.05^h	1417.0
	Gray eel-catfish	257.4^ab	133.6^a	nd	185.0^a	nd	145.8^a	88.8^abcde	810.7
	Fourfinger threadfin	148.3^ab	48.7^a	nd	114.3^a	nd	96.2^a	53.1^abc	460.6
	Giant seaperch	142.5^ab	94.4^a	nd	245.6^a	215.7^d	139.5^a	95.4^abcde	933.0
	Fringescale sardinella	33.2^a	164.2^a	nd	69.3^a	31.0^c	211.5^a	225.4^efg	734.6
Medium fat fish (4–8% fat)	Moonfish	637.7^ab	215.3^a	nd	1046.8^c	257.6^e	176.7^a	122.6^abcdef	2456.7
High fat fish (>8% fat)	Longtail shad	2254.1^b	1327.4^b	nd	68.9^a	437.5^f	2041.8^b	168.7^bcdefg	6298.4
Shellfish	Cuttlefish	13.4^a	17.5^a	nd	251.1^a	14.9^b	121.9^a	85.0^abcde	503.8
	Prawn	16.3^a	31.3^a	nd	320.4^ab	nd	48.7^a	45.3^abc	461.9
	Cockles	71.5^ab	55.0^a	nd	18.6^a	nd	343.0^a	123.4^abcdef	611.4
	Oyster	62.0^a	35.9^a	nd	100.7^a	nd	54.0^a	82.8^abcde	335.4

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