High Protein Krill Meal 71%

Krill meal is a specialty feed ingredient, which has been produced by the industry for more than 15 years from whole round krill, yet it is still in the growth phase of the product life cycle curve. (Dimitri Sclabos, www.Aquafeed.com June 2003.) Although there are more than 80 different krill species around the globe, resource abundance and high value dried krill meals have been mainly produced from South Antarctic Krill [Euphausia superba, Dana].

South Antarctic Krill has unique nutritional and quality attributes, which makes it the feed ingredient of the future. No matter that it has been in the market for some time already, only in the past few years a serious effort has been made to position this product within the high value aquaculture feeds market niche. This trend is possible due to feed formulators acceptance of krill meal’s uniqueness through its good protein content, its strong palatability effect, natural beta-carotene content [in the form of astaxanthine], its excellent lipids & minerals profile and its chitin & chitosan constituent.

Nevertheless, it is krill meals’ negligible amount of dioxins, PCB’s and heavy metals, the main feature that makes it an irreplaceable feed ingredient.

Krill meal is an excellent nutritional source of protein in an average of 60% [58-65% dry basis] of the highest biological value. Krill meal’s typical average amino acid profile is as follows; Alanine 5.8% [percent of protein] – Arginine 6.7% – Aspartic Acid 9.5% – Cisteine 1.2% – Glutamic Acid 12.6% – Glycine 4.8% – Histidine 2.5% – Isoleucine 5.0% – Leucine 7.8% – Lysine 8.2% – Methionine 4.0% – Phenylalanine 5.2% – Proline 4.0% – Serine 4.5% – Threonine 4.7% – Tyrosine 4.5% – Valine 5.3% – Taurine 2.9%. (Tepual S.A. & Mr. Raul Toro, independent report 1994)