A Review and Meta-analysis of the Effects of Replacing Fishmeal with Insect Meals on Growth of Tilapias and Sharptooth Catfish

Table 4

Fatty acid (%) profile of insects in Southern Africa.

FA	Gonimbrasia belina^1	Schistocerca gregaria^2	Musca domestica^2	Macrotermes natalensis^3	Gryllotalpa africana^2
Lauric acid C12:0	<0.1	0.32	—	0.18	—
Myristic acid C14:0	<0.1	2.55	5.5	1.16	0.7
Palmitic acid C16:0	3.2	26.88	31.1	38.35	23.4
Oleic acid C18:1(n-9)	1.6	31.66	24.8	41.74	23.8
Linoleic acid C18:2(n-6)	3.7	24.67	19.8	5.03	38.0
α-Linolenic acid C18:3(n-3)	1.6	10.14	2.0	0.87	1.2
Stearic acid C18:0	1.7	3.81	3.4	9.53	9.8

¹Rapatsa and Moyo [31]; ²Tran et al. [34]; ³Igwe et al. [43].