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LWT-FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 57, Issue 2, Pages 580-585Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.lwt.2014.02.026
Keywords
Cobia skins; Croaker skins; Extraction; Gelatin
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- Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) of Brazil
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Gelatin was obtained from cobia (Rachycentron canadum) skins, which is an important commercial species for marine fish aquaculture, and it was compared with gelatin from croaker (Micropogonias furnieri) skins, using the same extraction methodology (alkaline/acid pre-treatments). Cobia skins gelatin showed values of protein yield, gelatin yield, gel strength, melting point, gelling point and viscosity higher than the values found from croaker skins gelatin. The values of turbidity and Hue angle for cobia and croaker gelatins were 403 and 74 NTU, and 84.8 degrees and 87.3 degrees, respectively. Spectra in the infrared region had the major absorption band in the amide region for both gelatins, but it showed some differences in the spectra. The praline and hydroxyproline contents from cobia skins gelatin (205 residues/1000 residues) was higher than from croaker skins gelatin (188 residues/1000 residues). SDS-PAGE of both gelatins showed a similar molecular weight distribution to that of standard collagen type I. Therefore, cobia skins could be used as a potential marine source of gelatin obtainment for application in diversified industrial fields. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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