Table 5.

Fatty acid composition of abdominal fat of female ob mice treated with I. sinclairii powder over a 6-month

Fatty acid (μ/fat mg)	Con	IS 5	IS 10	ML 10	SW 10
Myristic acid (C14:0)	0.77 ± 0.57	0.60 ± 0.38	1.33 ± 0.70	0.58 ± 0.41	0.76 ± 0.66
Palmitic acid (C16:0)	29.44 ± 4.52	27.27 ± 6.75	43.60 ± 8.53	30.04 ± 9.20	33.31 ± 5.63
Palmitoleic acid (C16:1)	12.73 ± 6.60	13.57 ± 2.49	26.74 ± 5.07*	13.44 ± 3.39	18.39 ± 6.23
Stearic acid (C18:0)	3.98 ± 1.12	2.60 ± 0.52	4.06 ± 1.57	3.35 ± 0.99	3.78 ± 0.37
Oleic acid (C18:1)	137.50 ± 9.74	155.78 ± 43.66	193.24 ± 23.61*	141.24 ± 38.28	187.08 ± 22.40*
Linoleic acid (C18:2)	43.43 ± 12.76	40.74 ± 10.31	63.85 ± 13.40*	44.48 ± 13.03	52.11 ± 6.78
Arachidic acid methyl ester (C20:0)	0.08 ± 0.03	0.04 ± 0.01	0.06 ± 0.03	0.04 ± 0.00	0.03 ± 0.00
Eicosenoic acid (C20:1)	0.27 ± 0.14	0.14 ± 0.08	0.09 ± 0.08	0.02 ± 0.00	0.05 ± 0.03
Eicosadienoic acid (C20:2)	0.47 ± 0.04	0.40 ± 0.13	0.42 ± 0.05	0.21 ± 0.16	0.32 ± 0.12
Eicosatrienoic acid (C20:3)	0.46 ± 0.23	0.19 ± 0.20	0.45 ± 0.07*	0.26 ± 0.20	0.41 ± 0.16
Arachidonic acid (C20:4)	0.75 ± 0.25	0.45 ± 0.19	0.46 ± 0.09	0.35 ± 0.12*	0.38 ± 0.14
Eicosapentaenoicacid (EPA) (C20:5)	0.82 ± 0.16	0.52 ± 0.08	0.61 ± 0.05	0.53 ± 0.12	0.58 ± 0.10
Docosahexaenoicacid (DHA) (C22:6)	0.26 ± 0.13	0.35 ± 0.12	0.36 ± 0.08	0.34 ± 0.09	0.37 ± 0.14
Total	230.88 ± 17.51	241.82 ± 57.57	335.24 ± 51.44*	234.51 ± 66.15	297.46 ± 42.60
FA/UFA	1.18 ± 0.2	1.15 ± 0.01	1.17 ± 0.01	1.17 ± 0.01	1.14 ± 0.01
Saturated fatty acid	14.85	12.62	14.63	14.50	12.73
Unsaturated fatty acid (UFA)	85.20	87.73	85.38	85.66	87.31
Single UFA	65.18	70.09	65.65	65.97	69.09
Poly UFA	20.01	17.64	19.73	19.68	18.21

Each value represents mean ± S.D.

*P<0.05 vs Control (Group 1)