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. 2012 Jan 25;11:15. doi: 10.1186/1476-511X-11-15

Table 6.

Influence of dietary treatments on breast muscle fatty acid composition at 42 days of age in broiler chickens (%).

	Treatments

Fatty acids	T1^†	T2	T3	T4
14:0	0.66 ± 0.04^c	0.79 ± 0.03^bc	0.90 ± 0.05^ab	1.07 ± 0.06^a
15:0	0.45 ± 0.08	0.42 ± 0.04	0.53 ± 0.09	0.56 ± 0.06
16:0	23.50 ± 0.51	21.82 ± 0.46	22.03 ± 0.35	21.64 ± 1.48
16:1	2.81 ± 0.45^a	1.29 ± 0.14^c	1.63 ± 0.26^bc	2.51 ± 0.28^ab
17:0	0.37 ± 0.03	0.60 ± 0.10	0.66 ± 0.07	0.71 ± 0.10
18:0	10.01 ± 0.51	11.81 ± 0.36	11.71 ± 0.68	11.92 ± 0.89
18:1 n-9	35.11 ± 1.00^a	21.26 ± 0.78^b	20.96 ± 1.39^b	19.53 ± 1.57^b
18:2 n-6	16.47 ± 0.41^b	20.57 ± 0.90^a	16.24 ± 1.06^b	14.77 ± 1.49^b
18:3 n-3	0.45 ± 0.03	0.42 ± 0.03	0.42 ± 0.08	0.59 ± 0.08
20:4 n-6	5.67 ± 0.70^ab	6.17 ± 0.41^a	5.11 ± 0.77^ab	3.95 ± 0.61^b
20:5 n-3	-	1.20 ± 0.16^b	2.24 ± 0.37^a	2.83 ± 0.14^a
22:6 n-3	-	8.26 ± 0.74^b	13.13 ± 0.82^a	14.84 ± 1.18^a
SFA	35.99 ± 0.52	37.04 ± 0.90	37.27 ± 1.01	37.32 ± 1.10
UFA	64.01 ± 0.52	62.96 ± 0.90	62.73 ± 1.01	62.68 ± 1.10
MUFA	39.80 ± 1.23^a	24.91 ± 0.73^b	24.66 ± 1.51^b	24.04 ± 1.39^b
PUFA n-3	0.45 ± 0.03^c	9.88 ± 0.82^b	15.79 ± 0.96^a	18.26 ± 1.19^a
PUFA n-6	23.76 ± 0.96^b	28.17 ± 0.81^a	22.28 ± 0.86^b	20.38 ± 1.67^b
UFA: SFA	1.78 ± 0.04	1.71 ± 0.07	1.69 ± 0.08	1.69 ± 0.08
PUFA: SFA	0.67 ± 0.02^b	1.03 ± 0.05^a	1.02 ± 0.03^a	1.05 ± 0.09^a
**n-6: n-3**	54.29 ± 4.79^a	2.96 ± 0.29^b	1.45 ± 0.15^c	1.14 ± 0.12^c

^†Dietary n-3 PUFA level of 0.5 (T1), 8.0 (T2), 11.5 (T3), 16.5% (T4). n = 8 birds/treatment.

^a-dMeans with different superscripts within a row differ significantly (P < 0.05).