<span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal; letter-spacing:-.05pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-IN;mso-fareast-language:EN-IN; mso-bidi-language:HI">Determination<span style="font-size:14.5pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-ansi-language:EN-IN;mso-fareast-language:EN-IN; mso-bidi-language:HI"> of some nutritional compositions of roe samples of the edible sea urchin <i>Paracentrotus Lividus </i>(Lamarck, 1816) in the Dardanelles (Marmara Sea)</span></span>

Abstract

<span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:" times="" new="" roman";="" mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";mso-bidi-font-family:mangal;="" mso-ansi-language:en-in;mso-fareast-language:en-in;mso-bidi-language:hi"="">In this study, the nutritional composition of gonad samples of <i>Paracentrotus lividus </i>collected from three different stations in the Sea of Marmara (Dardanelles) and the Northern Aegean Sea, Bozcaada Island during the summer season of 2012 was investigated. As a purpose of the research, the effect of total carotenoids and free radical-scavenging activity assay of three different extracts (methanol, acetone and chloroform extracts) have been determined. Total carotenoids were found to range between 131 and 179 μg/g of sea urchin. The current study shows that the highest inhibition was found as 99.1 (%) in methanolic extract sampled from Tuzburnu (the first station). Macro (Ca, Na, K and Mg) and micro (Cu, Fe, Mn and Zn) mineral composition of urchins was specified by ICP-OES. Results show that sea urchin was found to be rich in total carotenoids, antioxidant capacity, macro and micro minerals.</span>