Bromatological study of protein concentrates from Sardinella aurita and Tilapia melanopleura. III. Effects of potassium suplementation on the biological value

: Bromatological study of protein concentrates from Sardinella aurita and Tilapia melanopleura. III. Effect of potassium additions on the biological utilizations. The authors studied in rats, the effect of suplementation of fish protein concentrates with Ca, P, K, or Na. Only the addition of K, but not of Ca, P, or Na resulted a better utilization of protein, showing to be the major deficiency of the mineral fraction of the concentrates.