Compositional characteristics of green crab (Carcinus maenas)

Naczk, M.; Williams, Jim; Brennan, Kathleen; Liyana-Pathirana, Chandrika M.; Shahidi, Fereidoon

doi:10.1016/j.foodchem.2004.01.056

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“…Calcium and iron are necessary to maintain an optimal bone development. Crab meat is an excellent source of minerals, particularly calcium, iron, zinc, potassium and phosphours (Sifa et al, 2000;Adeyeye, 2002;Gokoglu and Yerlikaya, 2003;Naczk et al, 2007).The phosphorous (adenosine polyphosphate) act as a key substance for energy release and present in phospholipids (Decker and Tuczek, 2000). Both minerals being required during childhood and growing stages to prevent rickets and osteomalacia.…”

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Determinations of Minerals in Marine Crab <i>Charybdis lucifera</i> (Fabricius, 1798)

Stella

Kumari

Shankar

et al. 2015

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ABSTRACT. Crab meat is an excellent source of minerals, particularly calcium, iron, zinc, potassium and phosphours. The minerals in the edible parts of muscle of C.lucifera different sexes (male, female and berried female) were determined by digital flame photometer. Totally 11 minerals are reported in the present study. Seven (Sodium> Potassium >Magnesium >Calcium>Manganese> Iron >Zinc) minerals were reported in all sexes. Sodium was maximum (137.55 mg) and zinc was minimum (1.76 mg) in all sexes. Copper, mercury and cadmium were available in trace amount in all sexes. However, arsenic was in trace amount in berried females and totally absent in males and females. Among different sexes, berried females contain maximum amount of minerals (156.24mg) followed by females (121.76 mg) and males (95.5mg).

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Determinations of Minerals in Marine Crab <i>Charybdis lucifera</i> (Fabricius, 1798)

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Kumari

Shankar

et al. 2015

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“…The major n-3 and n-6 PUFA was linoleic (C18:2n-6) and linolenic acid (C18:3n-3) respectively. The n-3 fatty acids accounted for 5.21% of the total and 34.69% of all PUFA whereas n-6 acids were 9.81% and 65.31% of all PUFA both of which is lower than those reported for green crab C. mediterraneus and C. maenas [17,45]. The ratio of EPA to DHA was found to be 0.53 which is lower than those reported but higher than the recommended desire minimum and maximum dietary ratio of n-3/n-6 (0.1-0.2) by FAO/WHO [46], and higher ratio was considered more beneficial for human health [47,48,49].…”

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Fatty Acid Profile of Freshwater Crab (Paratelphusha lamellifrons) from Padma River of Rajshahi City, Bangladesh

Islam¹,

Sarkar²,

Rahman³

et al. 2017

J Nutr Food Sci

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Freshwater crab Paratelphusha lamellifrons from Padma River were investigated for proximate and fatty acid composition. Proximate analyses of the claw and body meat of crab revealed the presence of moisture, crude protein, crude lipid and ash and their amount ranges between 71.72%-81.30%, 35.01%-49.06%, 13.24%-17.64% and 19.62%-22.12% respectively, on a dry weight basis. Except lipid (17.64%), claw meat content higher amount of moisture (81.30%), protein (49.06%) and ash (22.12%) compared to body meat. The fatty acid composition was analyzed by GC-FID and total 12 types of fatty acid were recorded in the fat isolated from crab. Among the recorded fatty acids MUFA were observed as the highest (42.85%), SFA were the second (25.96%) whereas, polyunsaturated (PUFA) were the lowest (15.02%). The fatty acid compositions showed that the SFA, MUFA and PUFA were dominated by palmitic acid (20.49%), oleic acid (23.99%) and linoleic acid (9.81%) respectively. The proximate and fatty acid composition of the present study demonstrated that these species (P. lamellifrons) are a promising source of essential fatty acids ω-3 and ω-6 namely, DHA and EPA.

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“…EPA and DHA are important in infant brain growth (Wu et al, 2007) and have cardio-protective (Lee, O'Keefe, Lavie, Marchioli, & Harris, 2008;Ross, Lombardo, & Chicco, 2010) and anti-cancer (Alberts & Greenspan, 1984;Donaldson, 2004) properties. Balancing the nutritive material with risk is important.Crab meat is also an excellent source of minerals, particularly calcium, iron, zinc, potassium and phosphorus (Naczk, Williams, Brennan, Liyanapathirana, & Shahidi, 2004).…”

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Lipometabolic Alteration in Mice Feeding Eatable Tissues of Chinese Mitten Crab

Jing¹,

Wu²,

Xiao³

et al. 2016

JAS

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Objective: Chinese mitten crab is a famous aquatic species in eastern Asian region, but their edible parts, particularly hepatopancreas and gonads, generally contain very high levels of lipids that may have negative effects on human health. This study investigated the effects of different edible parts of Chinese mitten crab on the body weight and lip metabolism for Kunming mice.Method: The mice were fed with diets containing one part of an Chinese mitten crab or the mixture of parts of an Chinese mitten crab for 4 weeks. There were 9 treatments. The triacylglycerol (TG), total cholesterol (TC), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) and low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) were enzymatically determined using commercial kits (purchased from Nanjing Jiancheng Bioengineering Institute, China). The arteriosclerosis index (AI) was calculated by the equation: AI = (TC -HDL-C)/HDL-C. The levels of fatty acid syntheses (FAS), the 3-hydroxy-3-methyl-glutaryl-coenzyme A reductase (HMG-CoA) and lipoprotein lipase (LPL) were measured using commercially available kits according to the manufacturer's instructions. The significant differences between the groups were further analyzed by Bonferronis's t-test.Results: Our results showed that the crab hepatopancreas, gonads and the mixed male crab-edible parts increased blood lipids in some experiment group of mice corresponding to a change in the nutrition-related liver enzymes. It shows that addition of the Chinese mitten crab has an adverse effect on the blood lipid levels in mice. The FFH, FFMI and FMMI groups had significantly higher weight than the FN group (P < 0.05). The crab hepatopancreas, crab gonads and the mixed male crab-edible parts cause an increase in the blood lipid levels. The crab mixture significantly affected the AI value of male and female mice (P < 0.01). The level of FMMI group was significantly higher than the FN group (P < 0.05). Other groups showed no significant difference. The level of the FFMI group was significantly lower than the FN group (P < 0.05), and levels in the MMM and MFMI groups were significantly lower than the MN group (P < 0.05).Conclusion: It clearly showed that long-term feeding with the Chinese mitten crab has an adverse effect on the blood lipid levels in mice. One the one hand, the weight, liver index and fat index of experimental mice were changed than normal mice. On the other hand, the crab diet affects the level of TC, TG, AI and FASN on increasing. It is suggested that the special diet has affected lip metabolic alteration associated with contents of serum lipids and metabolic enzymes. But according to a certain regular feeding, there would be no adverse effect on mice. On the contrary, it may adjust the blood lipid in mice

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Compositional characteristics of green crab (Carcinus maenas)

Cited by 127 publications

References 21 publications

Determinations of Minerals in Marine Crab <i>Charybdis lucifera</i> (Fabricius, 1798)

Determinations of Minerals in Marine Crab <i>Charybdis lucifera</i> (Fabricius, 1798)

Fatty Acid Profile of Freshwater Crab (Paratelphusha lamellifrons) from Padma River of Rajshahi City, Bangladesh

Lipometabolic Alteration in Mice Feeding Eatable Tissues of Chinese Mitten Crab

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