Nutraceutical Potential of Five Mexican Brown Seaweeds

Table 1

Proximal composition (% dry matter, except for moisture) and total phenolic content (TPC as g PGE per 100 g dry matter) of five brown seaweeds collected from Baja California.

	Moisture	Ash	Lipid	Protein Nx6.25	NFE	TPC
S. compressa	10.9 ± 0.1b	24.9 ± 0.9b	2.93 ± 0.10c	10.4 ± 0.6bc	61.8 ± 0.9b	8.32 ± 0.39e
C. osmundacea	10.6 ± 0.1b	33.9 ± 0.5d	1.08 ± 0.07b	9.1 ± 0.1a	55.9 ± 0.3a	3.98 ± 0.17c
E. arborea	9.2 ± 0.3a	23.0 ± 0.5a	0.56 ± 0.12a	11.1 ± 0.4cd	65.4 ± 0.5c	5.00 ± 0.18d
P. californica	13.4 ± 0.7c	30.1 ± 0.1c	0.55 ± 0.12a	9.6 ± 0.9ab	59.7 ± 1.1b	1.88 ± 0.04b
E. menziesii	12.5 ± 0.5c	33.1 ± 1.0d	0.67 ± 0.05a	11.8 ± 0.5d	54.4 ± 1.1a	0.53 ± 0.02a
F value	48.890	161.33	317.637	15.867	83.206	109.013
Sig. ANOVA	<0.001	<0.001	0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001

Moisture in the ground seaweed sample; nitrogen-free extract, by difference NFE (100 − ash + lipid + protein contents); different letters in a column indicate different homogeneous subsets as defined by a multiple means comparison test (Tukey).