Name: Habiba Amged Abdallah

Section: 3

Under supervision: Dr.aya gamal

 The difference between white and dark fish muscles
Fish has two types of muscles: light and dark, with low percentage of dark, there are many
differences in the two muscle types:

dark white
Percentage
of lipids in Twice more white muscle
lean fish
The belly
flap is a high 18.3% lipid in dark muscle 7.6% in while muscle
fat section
There are more connective
connective There are less connective tissues in
tissues tissues in dark muscle than in
around the white muscle than in dark muscle
muscle fibers ordinary muscle

stroma Dark meat contains more stroma White meat contains less stroma
protein protein than white meat protein than dark meat
Dark muscle contains a
Light muscle (10 μg/100 g, dorsal
substantial amount of vitamin
portion, and 8 μg/100 g, ventral portion)
B12 (159 μg/100 g)

Dark muscle having higher

Dark muscle having less amounts of
amounts of vitamin E than light
vitamin E vitamin E than light muscle.
muscle.

Fat content. high low

White muscle has more protein than
White muscle has more protein
protein dark muscle
than dark muscle