Table 5.

FA composition (%, fw) of Sicilian strawberry trees with different geographical origin. Data are expressed as mean ± standard deviation of n = 3 samples per location, where every sample was analyzed in triplicate. S1: sample from Castelbuono (Palermo, Italy); S2: sample from Castanea delle Furie (Messina, Italy); S3: sample from Caltagirone (Catania, Italy); S4: sample from Pedara (Catania, Italy). SFA: saturated fatty acids; MUFA: monounsaturated fatty acids; PUFA: polyunsaturated fatty acids; UFA: unsaturated fatty acids.

FA	S1	S2	S3	S4
C16:0	16.54 ± 0.30 a	15.43 ± 0.20 b	21.66 ± 0.12 c	19.92 ± 0.18 d
C16:1 n-7	0.32 ± 0.03 a	0.23 ± 0.02 b	0.64 ± 0.05 c	0.52 ± 0.04 d
C17:0	0.62 ± 0.04 a	0.79 ± 0.04 a	0.92 ± 0.18 b	0.84 ± 0.06 a,b
C17:1	1.37 ± 0.05 a	1.14 ± 0.03 b	1.56 ± 0.12 a	1.78 ± 0.10 c
C18:0	6.52 ± 0.18 a	5.48 ± 0.37 b	5.01 ± 0.10 b	9.34 ± 0.24 c
C18:1 n-9	18.27 ± 0.17 a	19.20 ± 0.20 b	7.37 ± 0.36 c	15.86 ± 0.18 d
C18:1 n-7	1.02 ± 0.07 a	1.08 ± 0.03 a	0.72 ± 0.05 b	1.09 ± 0.04 a
C18:2 n-6	33.30 ± 0.55 a	34.32 ± 0.16 a	37.35 ± 0.32 b	30.58 ± 0.44 c
C18:3 n-3	20.76 ± 0.25 a	21.11 ± 0.03 a	23.22 ± 0.72 b	18.75 ± 0.45 c
C20:0	1.04 ± 0.13 a	0.84 ± 0.04 a	0.97 ± 0.12 a	0.84 ± 0.04 a
C20:1 n-9	0.33 ± 0.07 a	0.15 ± 0.02 b	0.35 ± 0.04 a	0.25 ± 0.04 a
SFA	24.71 ± 0.15 a	22.54 ± 0.27 b	28.56 ± 0.10 c	30.93 ± 0.45 d
MUFA	21.32 ± 0.10 a	21.80 ± 0.26 a	10.65 ± 0.51 b	19.50 ± 0.26 c
PUFA	54.06 ± 0.80 a	55.43 ± 0.16 a	60.57 ± 0.70 b	49.33 ± 0.20 c
UFA/SFA	3.05 ± 0.05 a	3.18 ± 0.24 b	3.28 ± 0.24 c	2.23 ± 0.05 d
n-6/n-3	1.60 ± 0.01 a	1.63 ± 0.01 a	1.61 ± 0.05 a	1.63 ± 0.06 a

a–d: different superscript letters in the same row indicate significantly different values for a given parameter (p < 0.05 by post hoc Kruskal-Wallis test); same superscript letters in the same row indicate not significantly different values (p > 0.05 by post hoc Kruskal-Wallis test).