Últimos adelantos del uso de harina de cabeza de camarón como suplemento nutricional en dietas para camarón <i>litopenaeus vannamei</i>.

Abstract

Shrimp production has been increasing due to the demands of world markets and consumers, to the high demand for the product, since it is a source of protein that will benefit the consumer, being acceptable and palatable. As production has been increasing, it has also been generating waste that the processing plants acquire when processing shrimp, being a raw product of nutritional and functional components, which can be applied in food diets in the field of aquaculture. In the processing of these wastes, shrimp head meal is obtained, being a high protein product, with a relevant similarity to fish meal, having as a good alternative because it has a good nutritional profile. This document is fundamentally focused as a literary review about what the shrimp head meal by-product can provide us, the nutritional components that can be isolated, in the sustainability and reuse of by-products, being applied as diets for Litopenaeus vannamei white shrimp of the peaceful.