Study on proximate composition of certain food fishes from marine, estuarine and freshwater environment fishes in tirurangadi taluk, malappuram, Kerala, India

Abstract

Fishes are the rich source of nutrients, providing an important complement to the predominantly carbohydrate-based staple diet of many people in Kerala Fishes arcuate different from other animal food sources, because they provide calories with high quality proteins, which contain all essential amino acids in easily digestible from and are beneficial nutritional sources. The five major constituent in the muscle of fish are water, protein, lipid (fat or oil) ash (minerals) and carbohydrate. The analysis of these five basic constituents is often referred to as proximate analysis.