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).