Table 2.

Fatty acid composition of diets fed to dams and their offspring and the milk from the dams.

Fatty acid	Cis diet	Trans diet	Cis-fed breast milk	Trans-fed breast milk
≤12:0	0.1 ± 0.05	0.1 ± 0.2	7.6 ± 2.3	11.9 ± 1.0
14:0	0.8 ± 0.2	0.9 ± 0.2	7.3 ± 1.9	7.7 ± 0.4
16:0	22.9 ± 2.9	23.4 ± 2.2	26.3 ± 0.6	22.6 ± 0.6
18:0	3.9 ± 0.4	5.4 ± 0.2	2.5 ± 0.1	2.8 ± 0.1
18:1t	0.6 ± 0.08	26.9 ± 3.4	0.7 ± 0.3	11.9 ± 0.5
18:1c	51.0 ± 2.7	18.1 ± 3.9	42.3 ± 3.6	27.4 ± 1.1
18:2	16.7 ± 1.1	17.7 ± 0.7	7.6 ± 0.5	10.7 ± 0.3
18:3	1.1 ± 0.3	0.4 ± 0.1	0.2 ± 0.1	0.2 ± 0.02
20:5	0.2 ± 0.05	0.2 ± 0.03	0.1 ± 0.01	0.1 ± 0.01
22:5	0.04 ± 0.01	0.05 ± 0.01	0.1 ± 0.01	0.1 ± 0.01
22:6	0.2 ± 0.04	0.2 ± 0.03	0.2 ± 0.05	0.3 ± 0.04
Other	1.0 ± 0.6	6.1 ± 0.3	5.5 ± 0.7	4.5 ± 0.4

Values are means ± SEM of n=6.

The 18:1 trans represents the total 18 carbon trans monoenes.