Table 2.

Comparison of Fatty Acid Profiles of the Free Fatty Acid Fraction of Milk Produced by Breasts with Symptoms of Mastitis Versus Milk Produced by Contralateral Asymptomatic Breasts

Fatty acid	Symptomatic (g/100 g)	Asymptomatic (g/100 g)	Difference (symptomatic – asymptomatic)	SED
12:0	5.1	6.0	−0.9	0.5
14:0	4.7	4.6	0.1	0.3
16:0	16.8	17.6	−0.8	0.9
16:1 cis-9	1.3	1.1	0.2	0.2
17:0	0.6	0.6	0.0	0.1
18:0	20.9	21.5	−0.6	1.3
18:1 trans isomers	2.0	2.2	−0.2	0.3
18:1 cis-9	20.4	18.5	1.9	1.8
18:2 cis-9, cis-12	10.1	9.4	0.7	0.8
18:3 (n-6)	0.3	0.3	0.0	0.0
18:3 (n-3)	0.8	0.7	0.1	0.1
20:0	0.3	0.2	0.1	0.1
18:2 cis-9, trans-11	0.2	0.3	−0.1	0.1
22:0	0.5	0.6	−0.1	0.1

Data are mean and SED values (n=14).