Re: imitation of crab meat

From: Clive Askew (clive@sagb.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Wed Sep 24 2008 - 02:24:39 PDT

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    Dear Francisco,
    In the Shellfish Association of Great Britain, we have just had a range of
    lipid analyses carried out on UK commercial species, including brown crab,
    Cancer pagurus. The interesting thing was the very high levels of omega 3s,
    EPA and DHA, in a similar range to many oily fish, at about 2500mg/100g in
    the brown meat and 175 mg/100g in the white meat. This is much higher than
    previously published, but one thing has occurred to me, which you may be
    able to answer. In the UK we eat the brown meat along with the white meat,
    for example as 'dressed crab'. Most of the published values are US data, and
    I am wondering whether crab brown meat is consumed in the US (I know they
    don't usually eat scallops with the roe, which is where most of the omega3
    is in scallops).

    I can send you the original data which we hope to publish soon. We had
    Autumn and Spring samples done and the was some seasonal variation , as you
    would expect. Are you interested in the brown meat?
    Regards.
    Clive Askew

    Dr Clive Askew MSc PhD
    Fisheries Consultant
    The Fishmongers Company
    Fishmongers' Hall
    London Bridge
    London EC4R 9EL

    Tel 020 7626 3531
    Fax 020 7929 1389
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Francisco Camino" <frankcamino@yahoo.com>
    To: <seafood@ucdavis.edu>
    Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 8:02 PM
    Subject: imitation of crab meat

    >
    > Dear colleagues:
    >
    > Someone of you can help me giving me a quantitative and/or qualitative
    > formula of the imitation crab meat. I only want aprox. formula if you
    > don't want give me your secret formula. If not you can give me a web site
    > where I can find this information.
    >
    > I am looking forward to hearing from you soon.
    >
    > Best regards,
    > Francisco Camino
    > Seafood QC Specialist
    >
    >
    >
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