Research Article

Fatty Acid Profile of Fat of Grass Carp, Bighead Carp, Siberian Sturgeon, and Wels Catfish

Table 1

Fatty acid composition (%) of the fat extracted from analyzed fish (mean value ± SD).

Fatty acidGrass carpBighead carpSiberian sturgeonWels catfish

C12:0
C13:0ND
C14:0
C15:0
C16:0
C17:0
C18:0
C20:0
C22:0
C24:0ND
∑SFA
C14:1
C15:1
C16:1n-7
C16:1n-9
C17:1
C18:1n-7
C18:1 n-9
C20:1n-7
∑MUFA
C18:2 n-6
C20:2 n-6
C18:3n-3
C18:3n-6
C20:3n-6
C20:4n-6
C20:5n-3
C22:5n-3
C22:6n-3
∑PUFA
∑n-6
∑n-3
n-6/n-31.240.441.371.72
PUFA/SFA0.750.451.321.61

ND: not detected. Means in the same row with different superscript letters were significantly different, .