Table 1. Dietary compositions of n-3 PUFA adequate, n-3 PUFA deficient and NIH-31 diets.

	n-3 PUFA adequate diet1	n-3 PUFA deficient diet1	NIH -312
	g/100 g diet	g/100 g diet	g/100 g diet
Protein	20	20	18
Carbohydrate	60	60	65
Fat	10	10	4.7
Ash	1	1	8
Fatty acids	% of total fatty acids	% of total fatty acids	% of total fatty acids
14:0	12.5	14.60	1.4
14:1 n-5	0.04	0.05	N/A
16.0	9.5	9.9	15.7
16:1n-7	0.04	0.13	1.5
18:0	8.0	8.0	3.2
18:1 n-9	8.4	5.9	20.60
18:2 n-6	27.9	27.20	47.5
18:3 n-3	4.6	0.20	5.1
20:5n-3 (EPA)	None	None	1.9
22:6-n-3 (DHA)	None	None	2.4
Total Saturated	58.8	66.50	0.90
Total monosaturated	8.5	6.1	1.20
Total n-6 PUFA	27.9	27.20	18.8
Total n-3 PUFA	4.6	0.2	9.4
n-6/n-3	6.1	136	2
Fatty acid content µmol/g diet
18:2 n-6	40.5	35.8	59.0
18:3 n-3	6.7	0.21	5.9

¹Adapted from reference [27].

²Composition of the NIH-31 diet was determined by gas-chromatography.