What Foods Contain Ara

The main food sources of ARA are meat, poultry, eggs, fish and dairy foods, as shown in Table 1 [20, 21]. ARA is contained in most animal foods [22, 23]; however, the contents of ARA are moderate, < 200 mg per 100 g of these foods, revealing the wide but small distribution of ARA in major animal foods.

Is arachidonic acid found in plants?

Arachidonic acid is present in red meat, eggs, algae, fish oil. 0.1 in fatty meat, 0.7 in fish oil, 0.3 % in eggs, 0.4 % of the total fat of breast milk, traces in cow milk. Higher plants and vegetables do not produce or contain arachidonic acid. It is only found and extracted from mosses and algae.

What is the uses of arachidonic acid?

Arachidonic acid is important because the human body uses it as a starting material in the synthesis of two kinds of essential substances, the prostaglandins and the leukotrienes, both of which are also unsaturated carboxylic acids. Examples are PGE2 (a prostaglandin) and LTB4 (a leukotriene).…

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