Table 2. Fatty acid composition (%) and nutritional quality of pure oils and their blends (mean ± SD).

-	Pure oils			Olive: sesame: linseed mixtures
	Linseed oil	Sesame oil	Olive oil	65:30:5	60:30:10	55:30:15
C16:0	6.7 ± 0.20	10.7 ± 0.2	13.2 ± 0.15	12.1 ± 0.3	11.6 ± 0.1	11.6 ± 0.2
C18:0	2.5 ± 0.4	6.5 ± 0.4	4.0 ± 0.3	4.0 ± 0.5	4.13 ± 0.15	3.8 ± 0.3
C20:0	0.2 ± 0.05	0.25 ± 0.2	0.6 ± 0.05	0.2 ± 0.05	0.2 ± 0.1	0.2 ± 0.1
C24:0	-	-	0.5 ± 0.02	-	-	-
Total SFA	9.43 ± 0.15	17.4 ± 0.3	18.9 ± 0.4	16.3 ± 1	16.9 ± 0.4	14.6 ± 0.3
C18:1 (ω9)	20.3 ± 0.3	41.8 ± 0.2	69.1 ± 0.1	58.8 ± 0.8	54.2 ± 0.2	51.4 ± 0.1
C16:1	-	-	3.0 ± 0.1	2.0 ± 0.05	2.0 ± 0.3	1.5 ± 0.2
Total MUFA	20.0 ± 0.88	41.8 ± 0.1	72.03 ± 0.2	58.8 ± 0.8	54.2 ± 0.2	51.4 ± 0.1
C18:2 (ω6)	12.90 ± 0.4	40.09 ± 0.05	11.4 ± 0.2	22.2 ± 0.1	23.9 ± 0.2	35.3 ± 0.3
C18:3 (ω3)	57.1 ± 0.2	0.8 ± 0.2	1.2 ± 0.1	4.3 ± 0.1	8.2 ± 0.2	11.4 ± 0.4
Total PUFA	70 ± 0.2	40.9 ± 0.4	12.6 ± 0.3	26.5 ± 0.3	32.1 ± 0.1	35.3 ± 0.3
PUFA:SFA	7.42 ± 0. 2	2.35 ± 0.2	0.66 ± 0.04	1.62 ± 0.02	1.8 ± 0.3	2.41 ± 0.4
ω6:ω3 ratio	0.22 ± 0.01	50.1 ± 0.1	8.46 ± 1.5	5.1 ± 0.1	2.9 ± 0.2	2.0 ± 0.5
HH1	13.24 ± 0.11	7.72 ± 0.02	6.14 ± 0.1	6.88 ± 0.3	7.20 ± 0.2	8.03 ± 0.03
AI2	0.00 ± 0.1	0.13 ± 0.3	0.15 ± 0.04	0.14 ± 0.2	0.13 ± 0.03	0.12 ± 0.1
TI3	0.04 ± 0.01	0.26 ± 0.35	0.38 ± 0.03	0.30 ± 0.1	0.26 ± 0.1	0.20 ± 0.1

For treatments see Table 1.

¹ Hypercholesterolemic ratio , ²Atherogenic index , ³Thrombogenic index