Type of Fatty Acid Crude Farmed Salmon Oil (Atlantic) Seal Oil (crude) Crude Cod liver Oil Crude Wild Salmon Oil (Pacific)
Saturated Fatty Acid        
Myristic acid (14:0) 3.20 4.23 3.11 4.52
Palmitic Acid (16:0) 12.79 7.69 9.60 13.88
Stearic Acid (18:0) 3.29 1.02 2.23 2.54
Other saturated fatty acids 0.55 0.59 1.10 1.59
Subtotal 19.83 13.53 16.05 22.52
Monounsaturated Fatty Acid        
Palmitoleic Acid (16:1n-7) 7.37 16.11 8.17 5.32
Oleic Acid (18:1n-9) 31.19 21.20 17.48 14.06
Vaccenic acid (18:1n-7) 3.44 4.76 5.36 3.15
Other monounsaturated fatty acids 5.38 16.81 22.78 22.44
Subtotal 47.38 58.88 53.79 44.97
Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid        
Linoleic acid (18:2n-6) 14.50 1.54 1.91 1.63
Alpha-linolenic acid (18:3n-3) 1.69 0.61 0.78 0.97
Arachidonic (20:4n-6) 0.61 0.49 0.38 0.63
EPA (20:5n-3) 4.63 7.12 8.52 9.54
DPA (22:5n-3) 0.13 0.09 0.11 0.12
DHA (22:6n-3) 3.48 8.45 11.36 10.55
Other polyunsaturated fatty acids 7.20 8.33 5.99 7.97
Subtotal 32.23 26.64 29.05 31.42
Table 4: Fatty acid composition (wt%).