Muscle Proximate Composition and Mineral Content of Dolphin fish (Coryphaena hippurus) from Coastal Waters of Visakhapatnam

Abstract

The present study was carried out to analyse the proximate and mineral composition of dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus) Visakhapatnam coast, for their nutritive value. Seasonal variation in the proximate composition of protein, fat, moisture and ash was analysed. Mineral composition of sodium, potassium, iron and calcium was also analysed for this study. The ranges of moisture, protein, fat, and ash contents were recorded as 73.97 - 77.18, 16.21 - 23.04, 0.26 - 2.76 and 1.23 - 2.7 %,  sodium, potassium, calcium and Iron was 12.63, 16.94, 6.80 and 4.74 mg respectively.