Effect of shrimp processing procedures on the quality and quantity of extracted chitin from the shells of northern shrimp pandalus borealis

Agriculture & Biology

• ash content 9%
• boiling 9%
• chitin 49%
• cooking 26%
• freezing 16%
• ice 9%
• minerals 7%
• organic matter 8%
• Pandalus borealis 77%
• peeling 47%
• pigments 7%
• saline water 10%
• shell (arthropods) 64%
• shrimp 43%
• shrimp fisheries 14%

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Chitin 64%
• Cooking 29%
• Fisheries 11%
• Freezing 16%
• Ice 9%
• Minerals 7%
• Pandalidae 100%
• Salts 7%
• Water 5%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• ash 7%
• chitin 61%
• effect 11%
• freezing 17%
• ice 6%
• mineral 5%
• organic matter 6%
• pigment 9%
• removal 5%
• salt water 10%
• shell 37%
• shrimp fishery 14%
• vessel 15%