Requirements of vitamin C (L-ascorbyl-2-monophosphate-Mg and L-ascorbyl-2-monophosphate-Na) and its effects on immune responses of grouper, Epinephelus malabaricus |
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| Authors: | M-F Lin & S-Y Shiau |
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| Institution: | Department of Food Science, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan |
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| Abstract: | An 8‐week feeding trial was conducted to evaluate two vitamin C derivatives, L‐ascorbyl‐2‐monophosphate‐Mg (C2MP‐Mg) and L‐ascorbyl‐2‐monophosphate‐Na (C2MP‐Na), to satisfy the vitamin C requirement and to test their effects on the immune responses of juvenile grouper, Epinephelus malabaricus. C2MP‐Mg and C2MP‐Na were each supplemented at 20, 50, 80, 150, 250, and 400 mg kg?1 diet in the basal diet providing of 7, 18, 31, 51, 93, 145 mg ascorbic acid (AA) equivalent of C2MP‐Mg kg?1 diet and 4, 10, 17, 31, 47, 77 mg ascorbic acid (AA) equivalent of C2MP‐Na kg?1 diet, respectively. Basal diet without AA supplementation was included as control. Each diet was fed to triplicate groups of grouper (mean initial weight 3.20 ± 0.05 g). Fish fed diets supplemented with either C2MP‐Mg or C2MP‐Na had significantly (P < 0.05) greater weight gain (WG), feed efficiency and survival than those fed the unsupplemented control diet. Liver ascorbate concentrations in fish generally increased as dietary C2MP‐Mg or C2MP‐Na supplementation level increased. Haemolytic complement activity was higher in fish fed diets supplemented with 92 mg AA equivalent of C2MP‐Mg kg?1 or 10–17 mg AA equivalent of C2MP‐Na kg?1 than fish fed the unsupplemented control diet. Lysozyme activity was higher in fish fed ≥51 mg AA equivalent of C2MP‐Mg kg?1 or ≥47 mg AA equivalent of C2MP‐Na kg?1 than fish fed the unsupplemented control diet. Analysis by broken‐line regression of WG indicated that the adequate dietary vitamin C concentration from each vitamin C derivative in growing grouper is 17.9 mg AA equivalent of 2MP‐Mg kg?1 and 8.3 mg AA equivalent of C2MP‐Na kg?1, and it also indicated that C2MP‐Mg is about 46% as effective as C2MP‐Na in meeting the vitamin C requirement of grouper. |
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| Keywords: | Epinephelus malabaricus fish grouper nutrition vitamin C |
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