Some aspect of nutritional compositions of freshwater prawns from streams in Terengganu

Abstract

This research was to determine the nutritional compositions of freshwater prawns such as crude protein, crude fat, carbohydrate, moisture and ash from freshly samples, not only for food product but also for commercial value. The objective was to compare the nutrition value among five different species of freshwater prawns sampled from Sungai Peres and Lata Belatan, Terengganu using proximate analysis method. Results indicated the significant different (P<0.05) of crude protein, and carbohydrate analysis and no significant difference (P>0.05) of moisture, ash and crude fat analysis in five species of freshwater prawns. The results suggested that Macrobrachium meridionalis is a good source of protein with fewer carbohydrate because exhibited significantly higher (P<0.05) content of protein ( 48.0 ± 4.22 fresh weight percentages) but the lowest content of carbohydrates (45.0 ± 4.29 fresh weight percentages) as compared to other species. Macrobrachium equidens showed the higher source of fat value (86.6 ± 3.20 fresh weight percentages) than other four species.