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Table 1

Fatty acid profiles of commercially-produced SCOs.

Major fatty acyl groups (relative % w/w of total fatty acids)

Organism 14:0 16:0 16:1 18:0 18:1 18:2 18:3 18:3 20:3 20:4 20:5 22:5 22:6 22:0
(n-3) (n-6) (n-6) (n-6) (n-3) (n-6) (n-3) +24:0
Mucor circinelloides a 1 23 1 6 39 10 0.2 18 - 1
Mortierella alpina (DSM)b 8 11 14 7 4 4 49
Mortierella alpina (Car.)c 7.5 6 9 6 2.5 4 43 12.5
Crythecodinium cohnii d 20 18 2 <0.5 15 40
Schizochytrium sp.e 8 22 <0.5 0.5 1 17 41
Ulkenia sp.f 3 30 <0.5 1 11 44
Yarrowia lipolytica g 25 1 1 6 18 2.5 2 <1 56
a

Oil of Javanicus, produced by J. & E. Sturge (UK): GLA-rich oil.

b

ARA-SCO, produced by DSM (formerly Gist-brocades, The Netherlands).

c

CABIO oil produced by Cargill Alking Bioengineering Co. Ltd (Hubei, China).

d

DHASCO, produced by Martek/DSM.

e

DHASCO-S, produced by Martek/DSM.

f

DHA CL, produced by Lonza (Switzerland); also sold as DHAAid.

g

EPA-SCO, produced by E.I. du Pont, USA (from Xue et al., 2009).

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