Supplementation of sodium chloride in diets to improve the meat quality of Pacific white shrimp,Litopenaeus vannamei,reared in low‐salinity water |
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| Authors: | Xu‐Xia Zhou Jian‐You Zhang Shu‐Lai Liu Yu‐Ting Ding |
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| Institution: | College of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, , Hangzhou, 310014 China |
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| Abstract: | To investigate the effect of dietary sodium chloride (NaCl) on meat quality of white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) reared in low‐salinity (2 g L?1) water, shrimp were distributed into four groups (treatments T‐1, T‐2, T‐3 and control) with three replicates. All shrimps were completely randomised stocked into 12 tanks at an initial density of 40 shrimps per tank. Diets for the control, T‐1, T‐2 and T‐3 groups consisted of the basal diet supplemented with 0 g kg?1, 10 g kg?1, 20 g kg?1 and 40 g kg?1 of NaCl respectively. After 50 days, shrimps in T‐3 showed significantly better (P < 0.05) moisture, crude protein and ash than those of the control and T‐1. Higher muscle Na content was observed (P < 0.05) in T‐3 than that of the control. Significant increases (P < 0.05) in contents of inosinic acid, total free amino acid (TFAA) and essential free amino acid (EFAA) were also found in T‐3. Texture assays showed significant differences (P < 0.05) in hardness, adhesiveness and springiness between group T‐3 as compared with those of T‐1 and control. It indicated that dietary supplementation of NaCl appeared to be a promising practice to improve meat quality of white shrimp reared in low‐salinity waters. |
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| Keywords: | sodium chloride meat quality shrimp salinity
Litopenaeus vannamei
inosinic acid |
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