Nutritional evaluation of aquaculture mussels (M. galloprovincialis) from the Black Sea, Bulgaria
Journal: Analele Universităţii "Ovidius" Constanţa. Seria Chimie/"Ovidius" University Annals of Chemistry
Year: 2016

Abstract In recent years black mussels are one of the most commercially important species from the Bulgarian Black Sea. The marine mollusks are valuable healthy food, low in calories and fats and high in proteins. They are a major dietary source of fat soluble pigments - astaxanthin, carotenoids and polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA). To our knowledge the information about the nutritional quality of mussels from the Bulgarian Black Sea waters, based on chemical composition, fat soluble pigments,