Table 2.

Fatty acid profile, (% total fatty acids) of experimental diets and Spirulina powder.

		Dietary treatments1
		Starter		Grower		Finisher
Item	Spirulina	C	SP	C	SP	C	SP
Fatty acid profile, % total fatty acids
C14:0	0.33	0.14	0.15	0.08	0.11	0.10	0.11
C16:0	56.32	16.77	25.87	9.84	20.07	11.03	19.34
C16:1c9	8.02	0.33	1.62	0.13	1.38	0.14	1.18
C17:0	0.29	0.10	0.18	0.06	0.12	0.08	0.13
C18:0	1.88	5.94	3.08	3.29	2.22	3.84	2.18
C18:1c9	4.13	34.28	25.59	32.95	22.39	26.23	22.82
C18:1c11	2.12	1.20	1.33	0.88	1.09	0.88	1.05
C18:2n-6	22.84	35.31	36.47	48.99	48.63	53.73	48.99
C18:3n-3	2.38	1.01	1.94	1.29	2.48	1.35	2.35
C20:0	0.21	0.58	0.49	0.35	0.36	0.39	0.37
C20:1c11	0.04	0.56	0.54	0.29	0.26	0.22	0.25
C22:0	0.18	1.20	0.47	0.64	0.28	0.71	0.29
C22:1n-9	0.54	1.06	0.91	0.28	0.16	0.29	0.32
C23:0	0.18	0.78	0.47	0.64	0.28	0.71	0.29
C24:0	0.54	0.75	0.91	0.28	0.16	0.29	0.32

¹Dietary treatments C: control, corn-soybean basal diet; SP: basal diet plus 15% Spirulina. Starter (1–28d), grower (28–70d), and finisher (70–84d).