Amino Acid Compositions of 27 Food Fishes and Their Importance in Clinical Nutrition

Table 1

Amino acid composition and protein content of 27 food fishes from India.

(a)

Amino acids; (g 100 g^−1 protein)	Catla catla	Labeo rohita	Cirrhinus mrigala	Sperata seenghala	Clarias batrachus	Heteropneustes fossilis	Anabas testudineus	Puntius sophore	Amblypharyngodon mola
	Fresh water fishes
Essential amino acids (EAAs)
Arg^c				nd					nd
His
Iso
Leu^c
Lys								nd
Met^c
Phe								nd
Thr
Tyr^c				nd				nd	nd
Val
Trp^c
Cys^c				nd				nd	nd
Glu^ac
Gly^ac
Pro^ac
Nonessential amino acids (NEAAs)
Ala
Asp^c
Ser
Crude protein (%)

(b)

Amino acids; (g 100 g^−1 protein)	Tor putitora	Neolissochilus hexagonolepis	Oncorhynchus mykiss	Schizothorax richardsonii	Cyprinus carpio	Tenualosa ilisha	Sardinella longiceps	Nemipterus japonicus	Thunnus albacares
	Cold water fishes					Anadromous	Marine fishes
Essential amino acids (EAA)
Arg^c						nd
His
Iso
Leu^c
Lys
Met^c
Phe
Thr
Tyr^c				nd		nd
Val
Trp^c							nd
Cys^c	nd		nd			nd			nd
Glu^ac
Gly^ac
Pro^ac
Nonessential amino acids (NEAA)
Ala
Asp							nd
Ser
Crude protein (%)

(c)

Amino acids; (g 100 g^−1 protein)	Stolephorus waitei	Stolephorus commersonii	Rastrelliger kanagurta	Katsuwonus pelamis	Epinephelus spp	Leiognathus splendens	Trichiurus lepturus	Crassostrea madrasensis	Perna viridis
	Marine fishes							Bivalve molluscs
Essential amino acids (EAA)
Arg^c		nd				nd
His						nd
Iso
Leu^c
Lys
Met^c
Phe
Thr
Tyr^c						nd
Val
Trp^c				nd	nd	nd	nd	nd	nd
Cys^c	nd	nd	nd
Glu^ac						nd	nd
Gly^ac						nd	nd
Pro^ac						nd	nd
Nonessential amino acids (NEAA)
Ala							nd
Asp				nd	nd	nd	nd	nd
Ser						nd	nd
Crude protein (%)

Classification of AA as nutritionally “essential” or “nonessential” or “conditionally essential” is as per Wu 2013 [12].
^aConditionally essential amino acids; ^cfunctional amino acids as per human nutrition (Wu 2010, 2013) [1, 12].
Values are reported as mean ± standard deviation of three replicates; nd: not detected.