## Abstract The presence of fat stores in fish is widely used as a correlate of fish health and fitness. Techniques to measure fat content with some accuracy are available for medium‐sized and large fish, but apart from morphometric indices, a noninvasive method to determine fat content in small fi
A microtiter plate-based assay method to determine fat quality
✍ Scribed by Mark Bertram; Corrine Manschot-Lawrence; Eckhard Flöter; Uwe T. Bornscheuer
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 329 KB
- Volume
- 109
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1438-7697
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
A microtiter plate (MTP) method was developed to determine the quality of fats that are used in large‐scale processing using lipase catalysis. Two assay formats were followed: In the first approach, the fats were interesterified with p‐nitrophenol laurate using a lipase from Thermomyces lanuginosa; in the second approach, pH indicators were added to the fat samples containing lipase. A blind study using 29 fats showed that the MTP method using p‐nitrophenol as pH indicator allowed a rapid and reliable assignment of bad fats and an acceptable differentiation between fats of moderate and good quality.
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