Table 2.

Main FA in the plasma of subjects consuming 50 g/day of different types of ENCH cheese for two months. The cheeses were produced from the milk of cows (cow-ENCH), sheep (sheep-2-ENCH) and goats (goat-ENCH). PA, palmitic acid; OA, oleic acid; ALA, α-linolenic acid; EPA, eicosapentaenoic acid; DHA, docosahexaenoic acid; LA linoleic acid, ARA, arachidonic acid; VA, vaccenic acid and CLA, conjugated linoleic acid. The data are expressed as mol % and represent mean ± SEM of 36 individuals per group; * p < 0.05; ** p < 0.01; *** p < 0.001 versus control (CRTL) group.

FA mol % in Plasma	CRTL		Cow-ENCH		Sheep-2-ENCH		Goat-ENCH
	Mean	SEM	Mean	SEM	Mean	SEM	Mean	SEM
14:0	0.64	0.02	1.31	0.12 ***	0.66	0.06	0.58	0.07
15:0	0.22	0.00	0.42	0.03 ***	0.17	0.01 *	0.22	0.02
16:0 (PA)	11.53	0.25	11.26	2.27	11.13	0.30	11.93	0.85
17:0	0.50	0.02	0.38	0.04	0.34	0.02 **	0.50	0.05
18:0	9.03	0.29	6.90	0.42	6.95	0.21 *	7.89	0.78
14:1	0.09	0.01	0.07	0.01	0.05	0.00	0.07	0.01
16:1	1.82	0.12	2.07	0.24	1.77	0.06	1.57	0.11
18:1n-9 (OA)	26.31	1.02	29.96	1.90	27.48	1.30	26.70	1.19
18:3n-3 (ALA)	0.58	0.03	0.69	0.04	0.54	0.05	0.67	0.08
18:4n-3	0.02	0.00	0.02	0.01	0.02	0.00	0.02	0.00
20:5n-3 (EPA)	0.54	0.03	0.67	0.07	0.73	0.11	0.76	0.14
22:6n-3 (DHA)	1.99	0.09	2.73	0.33 ***	2.47	0.08 **	2.74	0.28 ***
18:2n-6 (LA)	35.58	0.76	40.73	2.47 *	38.67	1.56	34.32	1.24
18:3n-6	0.41	0.03	0.50	0.06	0.39	0.03	0.37	0.05
20:3n-6	1.89	0.08	2.32	0.11 *	1.58	0.09	1.96	0.16
20:4n-6 (ARA)	8.06	0.35	7.79	0.85	7.20	0.31	7.52	0.33
22:4n-6	0.27	0.01	0.31	0.01	0.23	0.02	0.27	0.03
18:1t11 (VA)	0.36	0.02	0.69	0.07 **	0.57	0.06 *	1.03	0.15 ***
18:2c9t11 (CLA)	0.22	0.01	0.53	0.11 **	0.41	0.04	0.85	0.11 ***