... In our study, the attention was focused on the salted and dried mullet ovary product, a marine fat-rich food with nutritional and nutraceutical properties, produced in numerous world countries with different names, in Italy, is called "bottarga" (Scano et al., 2008), in Greece, "avgotaracho" (Kalogeropoulos, Nomikos, Chiou, Fragopoulou, & Antonopoulou, 2008), and in Japan, "karasumi" (Bledsoe, Bledsoe, & Rasco, 2003). Our previous studies analyzed bottarga chemical composition (Rosa et al., 2009(Rosa et al., , 2011Scano et al., 2008), stability to the oxidative degradation (Rosa et al., 2009(Rosa et al., , 2011, non-enzymatic browning process (Rosa et al., 2009(Rosa et al., , 2011, the effect on viability and lipid profile in normal and cancer cells (Rosa et al., 2011(Rosa et al., , 2016Rosa, Scano, Atzeri, Deiana, & Falchi, 2013), and bioavailability in cell systems and rat model (Rosa et al., 2011(Rosa et al., , 2013(Rosa et al., , 2016. Bottarga is considered a naturally rich source of n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (n-3 PUFA or ω-3 PUFA), such as eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA, 20:5 n-3) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA, 22:6 n-3) with beneficial health effects (Rosa et al., 2009(Rosa et al., , 2016. ...