The mean moisture content of the chitin sample as
shown in Table 1 was 2.12%.The sample gave a rather
high ash content of 1.56%. The nitrogen content was
found to be 4.18% as in Table 1. The mineral contents
are presented in Table 2. Expectedly, magnesium and
calcium gave the highest contents of 50.50 and 26.84
mg/kg, respectively. A significant amount of zinc (21.80
mg/kg) was also obtained, while on trace amounts of
manganese and copper were observed as shown in
Table 2. Lead, cadmium and chromium were not
detected in the samples studied.