. 2019 Mar 7;97(5):2099–2113. doi: 10.1093/jas/skz079

Table 4.

Effects of dietary oil supplements (LSO = linseed oil; HLS = heated linseed) on rumen fatty acid profiles in cashmere goat kids. Values are percentages of total identified fatty acid methyl esters.

Item	Control	LSO	HLS	SEM	P-value
Total identified fatty acids methyl esters (mg/mL rumen liquid)	1.44^b	1.50^b	2.06^a	0.11	0.003
Saturated fatty acids
C6:0	2.19^a	2.07^a	1.47^b	0.07	<.0001
C8:0	1.74^a	1.61^ab	1.29^b	0.09	0.022
C10:0	1.69^a	1.58^ab	1.27^b	0.09	0.025
C11:0	0.87^a	0.83^ab	0.66^b	0.04	0.021
C12:0	2.17	2.20	1.81	0.10	0.037
C13:0	0.94	1.02	0.97	0.04	0.399
C14:0	3.58	3.74	3.63	0.19	0.830
C15:0	2.16	2.15	1.99	0.08	0.329
C16:0	14.80^a	13.65^a	11.96^b	0.28	<.0001
C17:0	2.08	1.87	1.95	0.09	0.238
C18:0	17.19	18.21	19.52	0.74	0.275
C20:0	2.34	2.36	2.12	0.06	0.521
C21:0	0.89^a	0.86^a	0.65^b	0.05	0.006
C22:0	2.01^a	1.93^ab	1.62^b	0.09	0.016
C23:0	0.88^a	0.85^a	0.65^b	0.05	0.012
C24:0	2.07^a	1.97^a	1.62^b	0.09	0.010
Monounsaturated fatty acids
C14:1	1.65	1.62	1.48	0.08	0.361
C15:1	0.69	0.74	0.66	0.03	0.235
C16:1	1.96^a	1.79^ab	1.55^b	0.10	0.038
C17:1	0.97^a	0.90^a	0.68^b	0.05	0.008
C18:1n9t	7.23^b	10.69^a	13.13^a	0.60	0.0002
C18:1n9c	10.97^a	9.35^b	10.55^ab	0.32	0.019
C20:1	0.95^a	0.94^a	0.73^b	0.05	0.018
C22:1	0.90^a	0.87^a	0.66^b	0.05	0.012
C24:1	1.11^a	0.89^ab	0.66^b	0.11	0.053
n-6 Polyunsaturated fatty acids
C18:2n6t	0.86	0.83	0.73	0.05	0.211
C18:2n6c	6.31^a	5.65^ab	4.94^b	0.29	0.037
C18:3n6	0.87	0.85	0.71	0.05	0.058
C20:2n6	0.86^a	0.82^ab	0.64^b	0.05	0.017
C20:3n6	0.82	0.80	0.68	0.04	0.093
C20:4n6	0.90^a	0.86^a	0.67^b	0.04	0.006
C22:2n6	0.88^a	0.84^a	0.62^b	0.05	0.006
n-3 Polyunsaturated fatty acids
C18:3n3	1.69^b	2.15^b	5.68^a	0.25	<.0001
C20:3n3	0.99	0.81	0.60	0.11	0.065
C20:5n3	0.89^a	0.82^a	0.64^b	0.05	0.008
C22:6n3	0.93^a	0.90^a	0.66^b	0.05	0.008
Sum and ratio¹
SFA	57.58^a	56.88^ab	53.31^b	0.83	0.016
MUFA	26.42^b	27.79^ab	30.11^a	0.68	0.010
PUFA	16.03	15.31	15.91	0.55	0.669
n-3 PUFA	4.22^b	4.68^b	5.85^a	0.18	0.0004
n-6 PUFA	9.99^a	10.63^a	7.77^b	0.42	0.002
n-3 LCPUFA	2.44^a	2.52^a	1.72^b	0.12	0.001
n-6 LCPUFA	3.19^a	3.31^a	2.35^b	0.15	0.002
n-6/n-3	2.54^a	2.29^a	1.20^b	0.09	<.0001
P/S	0.28	0.26	0.29	0.01	0.366

^a–cMeans within the same row followed by the same superscript letters are not significantly different at P < 0.05. The number of observations for each mean value was eight (n = 8).

¹SFA saturated fatty acids (6:0 + 8:0 + 10:0 + 11:0 + 12:0 + 13:0 + 14:0 + 15:0 + 16:0 + 17:0 + 18:0 + 20:0 + 21:0 + 22:0 + 23:0 + 24:0), MUFA monounsaturated fatty acids (14:1 + 15:1 + 16:1 + 17:1 + 18:1n9t + 18:1n9c + 20:1 + 22:1 + 24:1), n-6 PUFA n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids (18:2n6t + 18:2n6c + 18:3n6 + 20:2n-6 + 20:3n6 + 20:4n6 + 22:2n6), n-3PUFA n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (18:3n3 + 20:3n3 + 20:5n3 + 22:6n3), PUFA polyunsaturated fatty acids (n-6 PUFA + n-3 PUFA), n-6LCPUFA n-6 long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (20:2n6 + 20:3n6 + 20:4n6 + 22:2n6), n-3LCPUFA n-3 long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (20:3n3 + 20:5n3 + 22:6n3); n-6/n-3 = n-6 long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids/n-3 long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids; P/S = polyunsaturated fatty acids/saturated fatty acids.