Table 1.

Milk fatty acid concentration (mg/L) when comparing dairy cows fed with unsaturated fatty acids (UFA) enriched-diet relative to the same cows fed control diet

	Diet supplementation
	Non-UFA	UFA	SEM	P- value1
Item2				UFAL
Short Chain Fatty Acids, mg/L	11,343	8,035	418.5	<0.001
316C, mg/L	13,200	9,780	416.7	<.0001
Long-Chain Fatty Acids, mg/L	15,282	15,412	467.9	0.84
Unsaturated Fatty Acids, mg/L	12,023	12,397	349.6	0.45
Saturated Fatty Acids, mg/L	28,393	21,160	938.6	<.0001
Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids, mg/L	1,393	1,388	43.1	0.93
4n-3 Fatty Acids, mg/L	269.3	201.7	9.28	<.0001
5n-6 Fatty Acids, mg/L	721.1	652.46	20.01	0.01
Trans-octadecenoic Fatty Acids, mg/L	1,798	2,900	72.5	<0.001
cis-9, trans-11-CLA, mg/L	263.9	368.8	18.80	0.002
trans-10,cis-12-CLAf, mg/L	3.56	6.4	0.46	<0.0001

¹P- value = effect of unsaturated fatty acids enriched-diet supplementation

²Included n= 28 cows

³16C = sum of 16:0 and 16:1,cis-9

⁴Sum of n-3 fatty acids (18:3n-3, 20:3n-3, 20:5n-3, and 22:5n-3)

⁵Sum of n-6 fatty acids (18:2n-6, 18:3n-6, 20:2n-6, 20:3n-6, 20:4n-6, and 22:2n-6)