Record Details

Nutritional properties of the rainbow crab Cardisoma rotundum (Quoy & Gaimard 1824) from Puducherry, Southeast coast of India

NOPR - NISCAIR Online Periodicals Repository

View Archive Info
 
 
Field Value
 
Title Nutritional properties of the rainbow crab Cardisoma rotundum (Quoy & Gaimard 1824) from Puducherry, Southeast coast of India
 
Creator Silambarasan, Rajagopal
Sankar, G.
Ramamoorthy, K.
 
Subject Proximate composition
Cardisoma rotundum
Fatty acids
Minerals
Amino acids
 
Description 173-179
Present study deals with biochemical composition of rainbow crab Cardisoma rotundum was collected from Pondicherry region. The results of proximate composition in C.rotundum showed the percentage of protein was high 24.14%, followed by carbohydrate 9.34%, lipid 7.85%, moisture 37.99% and ash 20.70%. Totally ten essential amino acids were analysed. Lycine was found to be the more which constituted 0.763 mg. Valine contributed low in the body tissues (0.165 mg). Non-essential amino acids also ten acids were found. Glutamic acid was found more (0.874 mg) and the Asparagine observed very low with constituted 0.138 mg. Stearic acid was observed in high quantity of fatty acids (8.26 mg) and Linolenic acid was low quantity of fatty acids (1.72 mg) recorded. Among the minerals, calcium (216.8 mg) was observed as a major element and copper (0.36 mg) as the minor.
 
Date 2016-07-21T06:11:21Z
2016-07-21T06:11:21Z
2016-01
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://nopr.niscair.res.in/jspui/handle/123456789/34892
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.45(01) [January 2016]