Chemical composition and nutritional quality of scorpion fish (Scorpaena porcus, Linnaeus 1758) muscle

Analysis of the chemical composition of the lionfish Pterois volitans as a food strategy for its control

“…Fat is the nutrient with the highest variation due to biological factors like the physiological status, age, zone and time of capture, mainly (Huss, 1995;Castro et al, 2015). The LF depicts a fat content of 2.56% ( Table 1) similar to that found by Kaya & Kocatepe (2014) in scorpionfish (0.20%). The LF can be considered a fish of low-fat content (2-4% of fat) (Castro et al, 2007).…”

“…The phosphorus content (174.15 mg) was higher in the LF as compared to scorpionfish (33.28 mg) (Kaya & Kocatepe, 2014) and similar to the Mexican fishes: Caranx hippos (crevalle jack, jurel) and Sciaenops ocellatus (red drum, corvina) (Castro et al, 2015). According to Huss (1999), the P interval in fish ranges from 68 to 550 mg 100 g -1 ; thus, consumption of 100 g of fillet would supply 13.7% of the daily requirements (1.250 mg P d -1 ) of this mineral in the human diet (U.S. DHHS & USDA, 2015).…”

“…The calcium content (26.09 mg) was low as reported by Hoo et al (2013) and compared to the scorpionfish that shows 230 on 5 mg in average (Kaya & Kocatepe, 2014). Hence, this amount of calcium only contributes 2% to the daily requirements of men and women, according to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans -2020(U.S. DHHS & USDA, 2015.…”

“…The moisture content (%) was similar to that reported by Castro et al (2007) in 16 species of Mexican marine fish (from 75.5 to 79.8%), and high when compared to commercially relevant species of Venezuela, like the tambaqui (70.73%), lisa (71.09%) and tilapia (72.36%) (Izquierdo et al, 1999), and it is within the average interval for fish, according to Huss (1995), which is from 66 to 81%. Regarding the protein concentration in 100 g of lionfish fillet, it is higher than that of scorpionfish fish muscle (15.91%) (Scorpaena plumieri), which is a species that belongs to the same taxonomic family as the lionfish (Kaya & Kocatepe, 2014). Also, the ash content is similar in both fishes, whereas the energetic content was higher in the LF than in scorpionfish (103.89 and 67.63 kcal 100 g -1 , respectively).…”

Chemical composition, amino acid and fatty acid profiles of Lionfish Pterois volitans from the Alacranes reef, southern Gulf of Mexico

“…These results are relevant considering that they studied P. volitans captured in Parangipettai coast, India, which it is geographically far from the Gulf of Mexico. Two studies of the composition of S. porcus caught in Turkey showed different results in terms of fatty acid content, however, in both cases the fatty acids present in greater proportion were SFA (Kaya and Kocatepe, 2014). Kaya and Kocatepe (2014) did not quantify the content of DHA, EPA, -3, -6 given the low content of PUFA found (1.75 %), while and Turan and Kocatepe (2014) reported that DHA was the most abundant polyunsaturated fatt acid (8.81 %), as well as a DHA/EPA ratio of 1.47 and -3/-6 ratio of 7.87.…”