Fatma Arık Çolakoğlu

Proximate and Elemental Composition of Chamelea gallina from the Southern Coast of the Marmara Sea (Turkey)

The venerid clam Chamelea gallina is a popular and economic foodstuff around the Mediterranean countries especially in Italy, Spain, and France. The aim of this study is to evaluate the nutritional quality of striped venus of Southern Marmara. Samples were harvested seasonally at five stations and analyzed to determine meat yield, proximate, and elemental composition. According to the results, meat yield ranged from 20.24% to 29.94%. Means of water, protein, lipid, and ash content were 67%, 10.12%, 2.57%, and 1.66%, respectively. The mean concentrations (mg/kg wet weight) of elements in tissues are as follows: B: 2.37–4.24; Cr: 0–0.76; Co: 0–0.43; Cu: 0.71–5.30; Mn: 0.30–5.94; Zn: 13.08–77.76; Ni: 0–1.22; Fe: 2.46–114.22; Al: 1.23–75.49; Pb: 0.18–3.24; Ba: 0.66–15.97; Cd: 0.04–0.69. Among the reported metal levels, only Pb and Zn in two stations exceeded the maximum critical concentrations enforced by Turkish legislation and European Commission. Therefore, we report that striped venus from Southern Marmara Sea, in general, are safe for human consumption; nonetheless, Pb and Zn levels should be closely monitored in the future.

Nutritional and sensory properties of salted fish product, lakerda

Abstract The objective of this study was to determine nutritional and sensorial properties of lakerda, a traditional salted fish product, produced from Atlantic bonito (Sarda sarda). From the point of nutritional characterization, chemical content and amino acid and fatty acid compositions of lakerda have been investigated. For determination of sensorial attribute, instrumental texture, instrumental color, and descriptive sensorial analyses were conducted. Chemical composition of lakerda was 52.22% water, 14.64% protein, 17.39% lipid, 15.14% ash. Protein of lakerda has a well-balanced amino acid composition, with high amounts of Glutamic acid + Glutamine (4.75 g/100 g), Aspartic acid + Asparagine (2.39 g/100 g), Leucine (1.51 g/100 g), and Valine (1.36 g/100 g). Thirty-two fatty acids were identified in lipid of lakerda, of which monounsaturated fatty acids were the highest proportion (40.91%). Oleic acid (C18:1) was dominant fatty acid followed by docosahexaenoic acid (DHA; 22:6n−3) and palmitic acid (C16:0) with percentages of 21.68, 18.79, 11.49, respectively. In instrumental properties, hardness, L* (lightness), a* (redness) and b* values (yellowness) of lakerda were measured as 2.04 kg, 37.44, 5.23, and 0.47, respectively. The results of this study indicated that lakerda has outstanding sensory and nutritional characteristics due to high quality and well-balanced essential amino acid and fatty acid.