Table 7.

Fatty acid profile¹ in breast muscle (g fatty acids/100 g total fatty acids).

	Cont	+E	+C	+Se	+ECSe	SEM	P-value
C16:0	18.68	18.47	18.75	18.86	18.71	0.24	0.830
Σ C16:12	2.56	2.69	3.01	2.77	2.79	0.30	0.864
C18:0	8.52	8.19	8.27	8.54	8.66	0.44	0.933
Σ C18:12	24.7	24.4	25.9	24.6	25.6	0.85	0.672
C18:2 n-6	19.76	20.68	19.27	19.63	19.23	0.46	0.213
C18:3 n-3	13.09	12.61	12.20	12.31	11.46	0.78	0.652
C18:4 n-3	0.160	0.165	0.163	0.158	0.155	0.011	0.974
C20:4 n-6	2.71	3.05	2.87	3.12	3.23	0.36	0.841
C20:5 n-3	1.43	1.58	1.61	1.58	1.61	0.14	0.855
C22:4 n-6	0.341	0.420	0.425	0.454	0.469	0.052	0.465
C22:5 n-3	2.07	2.58	2.33	2.45	2.53	0.24	0.579
C22:6 n-3	0.890	0.945	0.851	0.878	1.05	0.110	0.710
SFA	29.8	28.5	28.9	29.5	29.4	0.62	0.622
MUFA	27.8	27.5	29.3	27.8	28.8	1.13	0.744
PUFA	42.2	44.1	41.8	42.9	42.0	0.78	0.281
n-3 PUFA	18.31	18.65	17.94	18.10	17.56	0.41	0.453
n-6 PUFA	24.0	25.4	23.9	24.8	24.4	0.67	0.495
n-6/n-3 PUFA	1.32	1.37	1.33	1.37	1.38	0.06	0.915
LC PUFA	9.24	10.49	10.12	10.47	11.06	1.03	0.774
n-3 LC PUFA	5.12	5.87	5.62	5.68	6.02	0.53	0.778
n-6 LC PUFA	4.13	4.62	4.49	4.79	5.04	0.52	0.765
n-6/n-3 LC PUFA	0.806	0.794	0.788	0.846	0.834	0.034	0.552

¹Only predominant and nutritionally important fatty acids are listed, but the sum of saturated fatty acids (SFA), monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFA), and polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) are computed from all fatty acids analyzed.

²Sum of all isomers.