Table 2.

Muscle phospholipid fatty acid profile changes

	Fish oil		Coconut oil
	Before	After	Before	After
Saturated fatty acids
14:0	0.37 ± 0.01	0.33 ± 0.02	0.32 ± 0.02	0.30 ± 0.02
15:0	0.18 ± 0.01	0.14 ± 0.00	0.15 ± 0.01	0.13 ± 0.01
16:0	18.96 ± 0.33	16.25 ± 0.10	18.87 ± 0.34	16.87 ± 0.38
18:0	14.16 ± 0.25	12.72 ± 0.13	14.10 ± 0.12	12.92 ± 0.17
20:0	0.08 ± 0.01	0.07 ± 0.01	0.08 ± 0.01	0.09 ± 0.02
22:0	0.16 ± 0.01	0.16 ± 0.01	0.14 ± 0.01	0.15 ± 0.20
24:0	0.18 ± 0.02	0.17 ± 0.02	0.17 ± 0.02	0.18 ± 0.03
Total	34.09 ± 0.45a	29.83 ± 0.14b	33.83 ± 0.36a	30.61 ± 0.40b
Monounsaturated fatty acids
16:1n‐9	0.17 ± 0.01	0.19 ± 0.01	0.15 ± 0.00	0.16 ± 0.01
16:1n‐7	0.37 ± 0.02	0.33 ± 0.02	0.42 ± 0.01	0.39 ± 0.02
18:1n‐9	6.05 ± 0.16	4.74 ± 0.20	6.25 ± 0.21	5.92 ± 0.29
18:1n‐7	2.01 ± 0.06	1.86 ± 0.06	1.94 ± 0.06	1.89 ± 0.07
20:1n‐9	0.09 ± 0.01	0.07 ± 0.01	0.09 ± 0.01	0.09 ± 0.01
24:1n‐9	0.20 ± 0.01	0.20 ± 0.01	0.22 ± 0.02	0.24 ± 0.03
Total	8.89 ± 0.14	7.35 ± 0.24	9.07 ± 0.22a	8.69 ± 0.36
n‐6 polyunsaturated fatty acids
18:2n‐6	26.87 ± 0.59	24.17 ± 0.65	29.19 ± 0.52	28.72 ± 0.60
18:3n‐6	0.08 ± 0.01	0.07 ± 0.01	0.07 ± 0.00	0.09 ± 0.01
20:2n‐6	0.12 ± 0.01	0.11 ± 0.01	0.12 ± 0.01	0.12 ± 0.01
20:3n‐6	1.29 ± 0.04	1.14 ± 0.03	1.30 ± 0.09	1.48 ± 0.09
20:4n‐6	13.55 ± 0.56	13.11 ± 0.38	12.67 ± 0.34	13.79 ± 0.47
22:4n‐6	0.44 ± 0.03	0.30 ± 0.02	0.65 ± 0.03	0.75 ± 0.04
22:5n‐6	0.35 ± 0.02	0.20 ± 0.01	0.39 ± 0.01	0.34 ± 0.02
Total	42.69 ± 0.26a	39.08 ± 0.43b	44.39 ± 0.37c	45.30 ± 0.45c
n‐3 polyunsaturated fatty acids
18:3n‐3	0.25 ± 0.02	0.21 ± 0.01	0.26 ± 0.01	0.24 ± 0.01
20:5n‐3	1.16 ± 0.12	4.46 ± 0.22	0.65 ± 0.05	0.69 ± 0.06
22:5n‐3	1.48 ± 0.06	2.27 ± 0.08	1.29 ± 0.06	1.47 ± 0.06
22:6n‐3	2.64 ± 0.18	4.22 ± 0.23	1.55 ± 0.16	1.79 ± 0.21
Total	5.53 ± 0.30a	11.16 ± 0.45b	3.74 ± 0.23c	4.16 ± 0.31c
Dimethyl acetals
16:0DMA	5.32 ± 0.28	7.59 ± 0.12	5.35 ± 0.12	6.70 ± 0.23
18:0DMA	1.88 ± 0.11	2.68 ± 0.13	1.96 ± 0.07	2.43 ± 0.08
18:1DMA	1.62 ± 0.07	2.312 ± 0.07	1.67 ± 0.08	2.11 ± 0.09
Total	8.81 ± 0.38a	12.58 ± 0.13b	8.97 ± 0.23a	11.25 ± 0.29c

Data expressed as % total fatty acids, mean ± SEM. Means that do not share a letter are significantly different.