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

Table 5

Polyunsaturated/saturated fatty acids (P/S) and 𝜔−3/𝜔−6 ratio of samples.

Classification	Samples	SFA	MUFA	PUFA	PUFA/SFA	𝜔−3	𝜔−6	𝜔−3/𝜔−6
Lean fish; (<2% fat)	Hardtail scad	708.8	121.2	387.0	0.5	332.1	54.8	6.1
	Golden snapper	418.7	94.0	506.3	1.2	391.5	114.8	3.4
	Indian mackarel	587.8	294.8	190.5	0.3	138.1	52.4	2.6
	Indian threadfin	307.4	38.3	415.9	1.4	377.5	38.4	9.8
	Malabar red snapper	557.9	141.8	724.7	1.3	578.3	146.5	3.9
	Dorab wolfherring	537.4	145.9	336.5	0.6	293.7	42.7	6.9
	Long-tailed butterfly ray	288.8	84.6	375.5	1.3	349.3	26.3	13.3
	Large-scale tongue sole	242.4	33.4	266.2	1.1	235.9	30.2	7.8
	Spanish mackarel	322.8	70.6	314.2	1.0	276.3	37.9	7.3
Low fat fish; (2–4% fat)	Black pomfret	935.0	138.8	714.3	0.8	623.3	91.0	6.8
	Silver pomfret	878.7	151.1	571.6	0.7	406.6	165.1	2.5
	Sixbar grouper	1308.7	287.2	1202.5	0.9	944.1	258.5	3.7
	Japanese threadfin bream	1211.2	287.2	796.5	0.7	663.9	132.6	5.0
	Yellowstripe scad	829.6	286.8	1417.0	1.7	1224.8	192.2	6.4
	Gray eel-catfish	1340.8	168.1	810.7	0.6	419.6	391.1	1.1
	Fourfinger threadfin	953.4	327.4	460.6	0.5	263.6	197.0	1.3
	Giant seaperch	1267.2	230.0	933.0	0.7	696.2	236.9	2.9
	Fringescale sardinella	1272.8	303.3	734.6	0.6	537.2	197.4	2.7
Medium fat fish (4–8% fat)	Moonfish	2572.4	504.2	2456.7	1.0	1603.7	853.0	1.9
High fat fish (>8% fat)	Longtail shad	17620.2	3059.3	6298.4	0.4	2716.9	3581.5	0.8
Shellfish	Cuttlefish	569.1	114.2	503.8	0.9	472.9	30.9	15.3
	Prawn	308.4	114.5	461.9	1.5	414.3	47.6	8.7
	Cockles	643.3	396.1	611.4	1.0	484.9	126.5	3.8
	Oyster	563.7	82.4	335.4	0.6	237.5	97.9	2.4

¹Categories of fish samples were based on the fat content [5].