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Proximate composition and mineral contents in the body wall of two species of sea cucumber from Oman Sea

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The proximate composition and mineral contents of Stichopus horrens and Holothuria arenicola from Chabahar Bay were analyzed and investigated. During the present study, we aimed to demonstrate the nutritive value. The approximate percent composition of moisture, protein, fat, and ash were 92.8, 3.47, 0.4, and 3.33% in S. horrens and 93, 4.4, 0.6, and 2% in H. arenicola, respectively. Atomic absorption spectrophotometry of the ashes indicated the body wall of two species of sea cucumbers contained higher amounts of both macro minerals (92.5 mg/100 g Mg in S. horrens and 115 mg/100 g Mg in H. arenicola; 106.25 mg/100 g Ca in S. horrens and 83.25 mg/100 g Ca in H. arenicola) and trace elements (521.781 mg/100 g Fe in S. horrens; 60.354 mg/100 g Fe in H. arenicola, and 0.096 mg/100 g Zn in S. horrens; 0.04 mg/100 g Zn in H. arenicola). For both species, there were high content of protein and essential mineral. Also, they have low content of fat in the body wall of two species in the experiment.

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  1. Department of Marine Biology, Faculty of Marine Science and Technology, University of Hormozgan, P.O. Box 3995, Bandar Abbas, Iran

    Noora Barzkar

  2. Department of Marine Biology, Faculty of Marine Science, Chahbahar Maritime University, P.O. Box 7931674576, Chabahar, Iran

    Gilan Attaran Fariman & Ali Taheri

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Barzkar, N., Attaran Fariman, G. & Taheri, A. Proximate composition and mineral contents in the body wall of two species of sea cucumber from Oman Sea. Environ Sci Pollut Res 24, 18907–18911 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-017-9379-5

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