Table 7.
Milk fatty acid group composition in dairy goats fed a basal diet without or with an added mixture of linseed oil and fish oil.
| Fatty Acid (g/100 g FA) | Diet 1 | SEM | p | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ctrl | LO2.5 | LFO2.5 | LFO4.16 | |||
| FA groups | ||||||
| C18 UFA | 21.7 b | 31.2 a | 23.4 b | 31.4 a | 0.94 | 0.001 |
| SFA | 77.0 a | 67.6 b | 74.8 a | 66.1 b | 2.25 | 0.001 |
| UFA | 23.0 b | 32.4 a | 25.2 b | 33.9 a | 2.25 | 0.001 |
| MUFA | 20.4 b | 28.7 a | 20.7 b | 27.5 a | 1.45 | 0.003 |
| PUFA | 2.64 b | 3.70 b | 4.48 ab | 6.39 a | 1.31 | 0.032 |
| n-3 PUFA | 0.78 | 0.91 | 1.47 | 1.89 | 0.74 | 0.229 |
| n-6 PUFA | 1.31 | 1.95 | 1.50 | 1.86 | 0.28 | 0.055 |
| Total CLA | 0.54 b | 0.81 b | 1.42 ab | 2.43 a | 0.25 | 0.007 |
| Indices | ||||||
| MUFA/SFA | 1.13 | 1.13 | 1.22 | 1.23 | 0.03 | 0.062 |
| PUFA/SFA | 0.03 b | 0.05 ab | 0.06 ab | 0.09 a | 0.01 | 0.027 |
| Atherogenecity index | 4.61 a | 2.37 b | 3.59 ab | 2.21 b | 0.72 | 0.010 |
| Thrombogenicity index | 4.32 a | 2.74 ab | 3.72 ab | 2.56 b | 0.71 | 0.038 |
1 Ctrl: control; LO2.5: 2.5% linseed oil; LFO2.5: 2.5% linseed oil + fish oil (3:2 wt:wt); LFO4.16: 4.16% linseed oil + fish oil (3:2 wt:wt). a,b Means within a row with different superscripts are significantly different at p < 0.05.