DHA and EPA Content and Fatty Acid Profile of 39 Food Fishes from India

Table 7

Fatty acid composition of important cold water fishes.

Fatty acids (%)	O. mykiss^1	T. putitora^1	S. richardsonii^1	N.  hexagonolepis^1	C. carpio^1
Saturated fatty acid (SFA)
C4–C11	—	—	—	—	—
C12		.0
C13
C14
C15
C16
C17
C18
C19	—
C20	—		—
C22	—		—	—	—
	34.5	53.0	42.5	44.3	46.2
Monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFA)
C16:1
C17:1		—		—	—
C18:1
C20:1
C22:1
	34.7	28.1	37.3	23.9	31.0
Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA)
C18:2 ω-6
C18:3 ω-3					—
C18:3 ω-6	—			—
C18:4 ω-3	—	—	—	—
C20:2 ω-6		—	—	—	—
C20:3 ω-6		—	—	—	—
C20:3 ω-3	—
C20:4 ω-6
C20:5 ω-3 (EPA)					—
C22:5 ω-3	—	—	—	—
C22:6 ω-3 (DHA)
	31.4	18.3	19.4	31.2	23.7
	13.6	8.6	16.2	20.9	9.8
	17.8	9.7	3.2	10.3	13.9
ω-3/ω-6	0.9	0.9	4.9	2.0	0.7

Data previously published by Sarma et al. [17].
Values are reported as mean ± standard deviation.
Values in rows sharing same superscripts are not statistically different ().
—, not detected.
EPA: eicosapentaenoic acid; DHA: docosahexaenoic acid.