Suitability of wild decapods from an alluvial valley in South America for human nutrition as derived by amino acid composition

Decapods are abundant in freshwater environments of tropical and subtropical rivers and could be considered a good resource for human feeding. The present study evaluated the nutritional quality of decapods in relation to amino acid (AA) composition and compared them with human requirements, and wit...

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Autores principales: Petean, Magali, Collins, Pablo, D’Alessandro, Maria Eugenia
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Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/21366
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0075951125000015
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.limno.2025.126223
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author Petean, Magali
Collins, Pablo
D’Alessandro, Maria Eugenia
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description Decapods are abundant in freshwater environments of tropical and subtropical rivers and could be considered a good resource for human feeding. The present study evaluated the nutritional quality of decapods in relation to amino acid (AA) composition and compared them with human requirements, and with the AA patterns of some crustaceans and fishes commonly consumed by human people around the world. Prawn and crab (Macrobrachium borellii and Aegla uruguayana, respectively) from the Parana River Basin were sampled. Catch effort and volume were also calculated according to the sampled area. AA was determined by high-performance liquid chromatography. Sixteen AA were identified in muscle; eight were essential amino acids for humans (EAA), and the others were non-essential amino acids (NEAA). Of the total AA, 38.0 % of those from M. borellii and 39.8 % from A. uruguayana were EAA. The NEAA values were 62.0 % for M. borellii and 60.2 % for A. uruguayana. Lipid content was close to 1 % of the biomass in wet weight in both species. When comparing decapod AA profiles with those from marine and freshwater crustacean and fishes used as food (giant river prawn, amazon river prawn, longarm river prawn, southern king crab, green tiger shrimp, speckled shrimp, tuna, sardine, hake, carp, trout, jundía catfish), the values of Leucine and Lysine in the decapods were found to be higher or equal. The amount of tyrosine in M. borellii and A. uruguayana was higher than in freshwater fishes. Nutritionally, both species are good quality food and could serve as a functional resource for the feeding of humans, nevertheless, they are not yet marketed.
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spelling INTA213662025-02-20T11:23:23Z Suitability of wild decapods from an alluvial valley in South America for human nutrition as derived by amino acid composition Petean, Magali Collins, Pablo D’Alessandro, Maria Eugenia Decapoda Human Feeding Functional Foods Ecosystem Services Amino Acids South America Alimentación Humana Alimentos Funcionales Servicios de los Ecosistemas Aminoácidos América del Sur Decapods are abundant in freshwater environments of tropical and subtropical rivers and could be considered a good resource for human feeding. The present study evaluated the nutritional quality of decapods in relation to amino acid (AA) composition and compared them with human requirements, and with the AA patterns of some crustaceans and fishes commonly consumed by human people around the world. Prawn and crab (Macrobrachium borellii and Aegla uruguayana, respectively) from the Parana River Basin were sampled. Catch effort and volume were also calculated according to the sampled area. AA was determined by high-performance liquid chromatography. Sixteen AA were identified in muscle; eight were essential amino acids for humans (EAA), and the others were non-essential amino acids (NEAA). Of the total AA, 38.0 % of those from M. borellii and 39.8 % from A. uruguayana were EAA. The NEAA values were 62.0 % for M. borellii and 60.2 % for A. uruguayana. Lipid content was close to 1 % of the biomass in wet weight in both species. When comparing decapod AA profiles with those from marine and freshwater crustacean and fishes used as food (giant river prawn, amazon river prawn, longarm river prawn, southern king crab, green tiger shrimp, speckled shrimp, tuna, sardine, hake, carp, trout, jundía catfish), the values of Leucine and Lysine in the decapods were found to be higher or equal. The amount of tyrosine in M. borellii and A. uruguayana was higher than in freshwater fishes. Nutritionally, both species are good quality food and could serve as a functional resource for the feeding of humans, nevertheless, they are not yet marketed. EEA Rafaela Fil: Petean, Magali. Universidad Nacional del Litoral. Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas. Laboratorio de Estudio de Enfermedades Metabólicas Relacionadas con la Nutrición; Argentina Fil: Collins, Pablo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina Fil: Collins, Pablo. Universidad Nacional del Litoral. Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas. Catedra del Limnología; Argentina Fil: Collins, Pablo. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Rafaela. Centro Operativo Experimental A.G.; Argentina Fil: D’Alessandro, Maria Eugenia. Universidad Nacional del Litoral. Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas. Laboratorio de Estudio de Enfermedades Metabólicas Relacionadas con la Nutrición; Argentina Fil: D’Alessandro, Maria Eugenia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina 2025-02-20T11:20:12Z 2025-02-20T11:20:12Z 2025-01 info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/21366 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0075951125000015 0075-9511 1873-5851 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.limno.2025.126223 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) application/pdf Elsevier Limnologica 110 : 126223. (January 2025)
spellingShingle Decapoda
Human Feeding
Functional Foods
Ecosystem Services
Amino Acids
South America
Alimentación Humana
Alimentos Funcionales
Servicios de los Ecosistemas
Aminoácidos
América del Sur
Petean, Magali
Collins, Pablo
D’Alessandro, Maria Eugenia
Suitability of wild decapods from an alluvial valley in South America for human nutrition as derived by amino acid composition
title Suitability of wild decapods from an alluvial valley in South America for human nutrition as derived by amino acid composition
title_full Suitability of wild decapods from an alluvial valley in South America for human nutrition as derived by amino acid composition
title_fullStr Suitability of wild decapods from an alluvial valley in South America for human nutrition as derived by amino acid composition
title_full_unstemmed Suitability of wild decapods from an alluvial valley in South America for human nutrition as derived by amino acid composition
title_short Suitability of wild decapods from an alluvial valley in South America for human nutrition as derived by amino acid composition
title_sort suitability of wild decapods from an alluvial valley in south america for human nutrition as derived by amino acid composition
topic Decapoda
Human Feeding
Functional Foods
Ecosystem Services
Amino Acids
South America
Alimentación Humana
Alimentos Funcionales
Servicios de los Ecosistemas
Aminoácidos
América del Sur
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/21366
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0075951125000015
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.limno.2025.126223
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