The Fatty Acid Composition of 12 North‐European Fish Species
ABSTRACT. Cardiovascular diseases among Greenland Eskimos are rare because their diet is rich in fatty fish and marine mammals. The beneficial effect of the fish diet appears to be mediated, at least in part, by the high amount of eicosapentaenoic acid in fish. We investigated the total lipid amount...
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crwiley:10.1111/j.0954-6820.1985.tb08825.x 2024-09-09T19:39:17+00:00 The Fatty Acid Composition of 12 North‐European Fish Species PUUSTINEN, TAPIO PUNNONEN, KARI UOTILA, PEKKA 1985 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0954-6820.1985.tb08825.x https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.0954-6820.1985.tb08825.x https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.0954-6820.1985.tb08825.x en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor Acta Medica Scandinavica volume 218, issue 1, page 59-62 ISSN 0001-6101 journal-article 1985 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0954-6820.1985.tb08825.x 2024-06-18T04:13:09Z ABSTRACT. Cardiovascular diseases among Greenland Eskimos are rare because their diet is rich in fatty fish and marine mammals. The beneficial effect of the fish diet appears to be mediated, at least in part, by the high amount of eicosapentaenoic acid in fish. We investigated the total lipid amount and fatty acid composition of 12 commonly eaten North‐European fish species. Most of the detected fatty acids were unsaturated, and the content of eicosapentaenoic acid varied usually between 6 and 16%. The amount of total lipid varied between 3.5 and 216 mg/g wet tissue. The total amount of lipid in different fish species seems to be more important than the respective fatty acid composition when considering which fish should be especially beneficial in the diet. Herring, salmon, Baltic herring, turbot and trout seem to contain most abundantly eicosapentaenoic acid. Article in Journal/Newspaper eskimo* Greenland Turbot Wiley Online Library Greenland Acta Medica Scandinavica 218 1 59 62 |
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ABSTRACT. Cardiovascular diseases among Greenland Eskimos are rare because their diet is rich in fatty fish and marine mammals. The beneficial effect of the fish diet appears to be mediated, at least in part, by the high amount of eicosapentaenoic acid in fish. We investigated the total lipid amount and fatty acid composition of 12 commonly eaten North‐European fish species. Most of the detected fatty acids were unsaturated, and the content of eicosapentaenoic acid varied usually between 6 and 16%. The amount of total lipid varied between 3.5 and 216 mg/g wet tissue. The total amount of lipid in different fish species seems to be more important than the respective fatty acid composition when considering which fish should be especially beneficial in the diet. Herring, salmon, Baltic herring, turbot and trout seem to contain most abundantly eicosapentaenoic acid. |
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The Fatty Acid Composition of 12 North‐European Fish Species |
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The Fatty Acid Composition of 12 North‐European Fish Species |
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The Fatty Acid Composition of 12 North‐European Fish Species |
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The Fatty Acid Composition of 12 North‐European Fish Species |
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The Fatty Acid Composition of 12 North‐European Fish Species |
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fatty acid composition of 12 north‐european fish species |
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