Table 9.

The effect of amaranth oil on fatty-acid composition of erythrocyte membrane of patients

Fatty Acids		HAD	Amaranth Oil 3 g (100 mg squalene per day)	Amaranth Oil 6 g (200 mg squalene per day)	Amaranth Oil 12 g (400 mg squalene per day)	Amaranth Oil 18 g (600 mg squalene per day)
12:0	1	--	0.35	1.14	1.22	1.07
	2	--	0.34	0.57	1.26	0.90
14:0	1	2.02	5.2	2.18	2.23	2.19
	2	1.44	4.11	0.97	2.89	1.99
15:0	1	2.9	2.28	0.61	0.62	0.77
	2	2.08	2.29	0.44	0.76	0.72
16:0	1	15.9	24.99	15.4	18.44	19.6
	2	17.75	16.1	23.0	16.40	17.8
16:1	1	3.98	4.68	0.88	1.09	1.30
	2	2.87	6.04	0.82	2.91	1.44
17:0:1	1	3.28	5.04	1.11	1.27	1.41
	2	2.55	2.87	1.07	1.27	1.41
18:0	1	12.81	8.22	11.70	12.45	12.24
	2	11.55	11.29	14.78	11.15	12.15
18:1	1	14.29	20.4	14.05	14.95	14.85
	2	14.93	17.76	15.43	15.09	17.17
18:2	1	8.48	9.65	11.05	11.61	11.57
	2	9.96	10.78	12.67	11.13	10.74
18:3	1	1.7	0.57	0.40	0.69	0.52
	2	0.88	0.8	0.11	0.19	0.26
20:0	1	--	0.22	0.57	0.45	0.63
	2	--	0.2	0.33	0.49	0.34
20:1	1	--	0.66	0.84	0.79	0.96
	2	--	1.07	0.61	0.95	0.81
20:2	1	--		0.63	0.51	0.43
	2	--		0.35	0.55	0.56
20:3	1	1.64	1.66	2.53	1.96	2.17
	2	1.16	1.31	1.50	1.57	2.22
20:4	1	15.03	5.77	15.33	13.66	11.7
	2	14.95	10.93	14.04	14.75	14.15
20:5	1	1.45	2.05	4.06	4.64	3.80
	2	1.03	4.23	1.08	3.00	2.40
22:1	1	--	0.83	2.75	2.80	3.82
	2	--	1.5	1.89	3.00	3.14
22:4	1	5.4	1.71	0.52	0.53	0.54
	2	5.65	1.27	0.83	0.50	0.46
24:0	1	3.55	0.18	0.23	0.19	0.18
	2	4.51	0.22	0.18	0.22	0.22
22:5	1	2.6	1.0	2.91	2.13	2.05
	2	2.32	1.31	1.77	2.30	2.22
22:6	1	5.42	2.46	9.40	6.99	6.45
	2	6.41	4.1	7.10	8.26	8.05
24:1	1	--	0.73	1.10	0.84	0.94
	2	--	0.63	0.94	1.00	1.02
Sum of omega 3	1	11.17	6.08	16.77	14.31	12.88
	2	10.64	10.44	10.23	13.75	12.37
Sum of PUFAs	1	50.2	25.82	46.83	42.59	39.43
	2	42.36	35.5	38.94	42.26	40.56
Sum of UFAs	1	37.18	47.03	31.83	35.6	36.68
	2	37.33	34.55	40.27	33.17	34.12

1 – Before Treatment, 2 – After Treatment

PUFAs – Polyunsaturated fatty acids

UFAs – Unsaturated fatty acids