Preparation of Salmon Roe Polar Lipid Concentrate as an HUFA Enricher of Artemia Nauplii

Abstract

Polar lipids (PL) concentrate was prepared from total lipids (TL) of salmon roe in order to use for highly unsaturated fatty acids (HUFA) enricher of Artemia nauplii, an important live food for marine fish larvae. The PL were concentrated by a solvent partition procedure using a solvent system of equilibrated hexane, ethanol and water. Starting with 120 g of TL, the solvent partition procedure resulted in 29.3 g (27.2 %) of the salmon roe PL concentrate. Major components of the concentrate were phosphatidylcholines (PC; 80.0 %), phosphatidylethanolamines (PE; 7.0 %), and phosphatidylinositols (PI; 5.5 %). Lesser amounts of free fatty acids, sterols and monoacylglycerols were also found in the PL concentrate. Fatty acid analysis revealed the contents of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA; 26.9 %), icosapentaenoic acid (IPA; 14.2 %), and arachidonic acid (AA; 2.4 %). PC and PE isolated from the concentrate were rich in DHA and IPA, whereas PI were rich in AA. The salmon roe PL concentrate appeared to have a potential as an effective HUFA enricher of Artemia nauplii. The solvent partition procedure seems to be useful for convenient preparation of such fish roe PL concentrate.