Chemical Composition and Fatty Acid Profile of Some Indonesian Sea Cucumbers
Abstract: Indonesia has a
great sea cucumber resource which is useful as functional food. Even though
much information about the biopotency of sea cucumbers have been published, however,
studies on nutrition value of Indonesian sea cucumbers are still beneficial due
to the great diversity and uniqueness of each species. The present work
was intended to obtain information about
chemical composition and fatty acid profile of 4 (four) types of sea cucumbers
which are frequently found in Halmahera water, North Maluku (Molucca), one
of sea cucumbers
producing area in Indonesia. The
samples coded as H-03, H-04, H-05 and
H-10, were identified as Bohadschia
argus, Holothuria fuscogilva,
Thelenota ananas, and Actinophyga
lecanora. All sea cucumbers showed high protein content, more than 60%
(drybase/db), except for T. ananas which had the lowest protein content (48.26%
db). As for fats, T. ananas showed the highest amount (2.35%db) with dominated
saturated fatty acids (SFA). On the other side, A. lecanora showed higher value
of PUFA compared to SFA and MUFA.
Palmitic acid (C16:0) was the most abundant SFA in the most samples with
the amount of 0.49–4.9 mg/g sample. Among PUFA, eicosapentaenoic acid/EPA
(C20:5n3) was detected, and eicosatrienoic acid (C20:3n6) was relatively higher
than the others. The ratio of w6/w3 fatty acid was 1.2–3.2 showing that total
w6 fatty acid was higher than total w3 fatty acid. However, this value is safe
enough to protect against chronic and degenerative diseases.
Keywords: Indonesian sea
cucumbers, chemical composition, fatty acid profile
Author: Yusro Nuri Fawzya,
Hedi Indra Januar, Rini Susilowati, Ekowati Chasanah
Journal Code: jpperikanangg150027