No More BS About BS!

[Slappy*McFish]

Everything you'd care to know about Artemia.
http://www.fao.org/docrep/003/W3732E/w3732e0m.htm#4.1. Introduction, biology and ecology of Artemia

 

[THE V]

Now I didn't expect that one. FAO does fish food.. pretty funny.

 

[SubRosa]

Man those adults are ashy buggers.

The higher the ash content of a food source, the more minerals it contains.

 

[Sploke]

Maybe I missed it but..what is the "fact" that you are trying to refute?

 

[OrionGirl]

There are a lot of people who say that adult brine shrimp are nutritionally void, while bbs are great. It never made much sense to me, but there are a lot of people repeating it.

 

[Sploke]

Gotcha - I understand where the concept would come from due to the babies having the yolk sac attached, which you'd think as a percentage would proportionally have a lot more nutrition.

Although, I don't have enough science background to determine whether the ~7 percentage point difference in lipids between baby and adult is "significant" (in a statistical context) to support that theory.

 

[OrionGirl]

In most of the discussions I've read, it's been more about protein than lipids.

 

[platytudes]

Good job! Now, can you get them to stop touting egg whites? Talk about a nutritional void. And don't get me started on that faux food they call Egg Beaters...

 

[Rbishop]

Egg beaters are great for whipping up real eggs, with real bacon, real cheese and scrambling in real butter....

 

[Star_Rider]

I never really cared much about any perceived differences between the nutritional value adult vs BBS.. to me it's more about the size...the fry have a very tough time consuming adult brine shrimp.....