Fatty acid composition of commercially important fish from Brazil Composição em ácidos graxos de peixes comercialmente importantes do Brasil

Total fat and fatty acid composition of seven fresh-water and nine marine fish commercially important in Brazil were determined. Palmitic acid was the predominant saturated fatty acid in both freshwater and marine fish. In the fat from freshwater fish the total C-16 fatty acids were higher than in m...

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Main Authors: L.E. Gutierrez, R.C.M. da Silva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 1993-12-01
Series:Scientia Agricola
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-90161993000300023