Table 17.2
Different types of marine species with their protein percentage
Species
Protein content (%)
Ar (%)
His (%)
Lys (%)
Trp (%)
Cys (%)
References
Fishes amiuriscatus (catfish)
*28
*0.97
Zheng et al. (2013)
Oncorhynchus tschawytscha (salmon)
*16
*5.02
*1.41
*6.27
*1.20
*1.27
Jun et al. (2004)
Rocha et al. (2015)
O.nerka (salmon)
*11
–
–
–
–
*1.25
O.keta (salmon)
*5
*5.55
*1.30
*5.69
*1.33
–
O.gorbuscha (salmon)
*6
–
–
–
*1.09
*1.15
O.kisutch (salmon)
*8
*5.68
*1.87
*6.57
*1.94
*1.39
Germaalalunga (tuna)
–
–
–
*1.18
–
Kanazawa (2001)
Melanogrammusaeglefinus
(Haddock)
18
5.70
1.17
6.41
0.85
1.16
Algae Spirulina platensis
60
7.3
2.2
4.8
0.3
0.9
Karuppasamy et al. (2013)
Porphyratenra
20
16.4
1.4
4.5
1.3
–
Ge et al. (2006)
Ulva
13.6
3.7
0.7
0.0
0.6
–
Sargassum
9–20
4.0
1.9
4.5
1.8
–
Shellfish crabs
17
7.6
1.5
6.4
1.1
Mayer et al. (2010)
Oysters
7
5.7
1.8
5.2
–
–
Paul et al. (2011)
Clams
9
5.3
1.5
5.4
1.2
–
Shrimp
25
6.6
1.8
8.3
1.2
590
D. Pal and K. Raj