06/01/2016: The role of lipids

Ioannis Zabetakis, assistant professor of food chemistry, University of Athens, Greece

First published in International Aquafeed, November-December 2015

In aquaculture, some of us focus on the nutrition of fish and how to increase the specific growth rate of fish, digestibility of the feeds, for example. Some others of us focus on the nutritional value of fish, their content of specific fatty acids, if these acids are saturated, unsaturated or polyunsaturated or whether the fish lipids have anti-inflammatory activities.

There is no doubt that these two distinctive groups of scientists work for the same goal but are they really talking to each other? In other words, do the fish nutritionists and the human nutritionists have strong communication channels for the simultaneous development of aquafeeds and fish nutritional value?

Read the full article in International Aquafeed HERE.

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