Table 3.

FA composition (mg/g fresh meat) of meat cuts with different fat contents (boneless lamb chumps with 2.8% of intramuscular fat (IMF), boneless lamb loin with 2.4% IMF, boneless beef with 3.34% IMF, boneless venison with 1.15% IMF and boneless lamb shoulder with 18.84% IMF)), analysed using the optimised one-step direct transmethylation (n = 10).

FA	Lamb Chumps		Lamb Loin		Lamb Shoulder		Beef		Venison
	Mean ± STD	RSD	Mean ± STD	RSD	Mean ± STD	RSD	Mean ± STD	RSD	Mean ± STD	RSD
C14:0	0.84 ± 0.01	1.25	0.70 ± 0.01	1.47	8.36 ± 0.27	3.18	0.64 ± 0.01	1.34	0.21 ± 0.01	4.38
C14:1	0.03 ± 0.00	4.08	0.02 ± 0.00	5.09	0.22 ± 0.02	8.77	0.18 ± 0.00	2.53	0.06 ± 0.00	3.74
C15:0	0.13 ± 0.00	1.59	0.10 ± 0.00	2.72	1.29 ± 0.04	3.39	0.13 ± 0.00	2.31	0.05 ± 0.00	5.06
C16:0	5.61 ± 0.06	1.14	5.12 ± 0.04	0.69	42.21 ± 1.22	2.89	7.50 ± 0.11	1.46	1.67 ± 0.04	2.69
C16:1	0.28 ± 0.01	2.40	0.24 ± 0.01	2.87	2.01 ± 0.06	3.03	0.90 ± 0.01	1.17	0.32 ± 0.01	3.16
C17:0	0.30 ± 0.01	1.77	0.25 ± 0.00	1.41	2.91 ± 0.09	3.07	0.31 ± 0.01	1.86	0.06 ± 0.00	5.52
C17:1	0.14 ± 0.00	1.96	0.12 ± 0.00	2.28	1.01 ± 0.03	3.10	0.25 ± 0.00	1.62	0.04 ± 0.00	7.28
C18:0	4.44 ± 0.05	1.12	3.88 ± 0.02	0.63	35.39 ± 0.92	2.61	4.47 ± 0.06	1.33	1.54 ± 0.03	1.86
C18:1 11t	0.80 ± 0.02	1.89	0.69 ± 0.02	3.23	7.86 ± 0.30	3.79	0.37 ± 0.01	2.09	0.12±0.01	5.93
C18:1 9c	7.68 ± 0.09	1.21	7.34 ± 0.06	0.81	53.06 ± 1.37	2.58	12.07 ± 0.15	1.26	1.61 ± 0.04	2.46
C18:1 11c	0.34 ± 0.00	1.34	0.29 ± 0.01	4.68	1.90 ± 0.09	4.61	0.55 ± 0.01	2.71	0.37 ± 0.01	1.85
C18:2 n6	1.59 ± 0.02	1.00	1.12 ± 0.02	1.52	4.57 ± 0.18	3.96	0.68 ± 0.01	1.07	1.30 ± 0.02	1.51
C18:3 n3	0.88 ± 0.01	1.05	0.64 ± 0.01	1.04	3.67 ± 0.11	2.95	0.42 ± 0.01	2.19	0.51 ± 0.01	2.19
CLA 9c, 11t	0.29 ± 0.01	2.09	0.28 ± 0.01	2.66	2.40 ± 0.11	4.39	0.19 ± 0.01	4.20	0.04 ± 0.00	9.07
C20:4 n6	0.34 ± 0.00	1.00	0.27 ± 0.00	1.12	0.37 ± 0.02	4.91	0.25 ± 0.00	1.56	0.49 ± 0.00	0.98
C20:5 n3	0.24 ± 0.00	0.76	0.22 ± 0.00	1.33	0.23 ± 0.02	7.01	0.18 ± 0.00	1.81	0.35 ± 0.01	1.62
C22:5	0.22 ± 0.00	1.73	0.20 ± 0.00	2.15	0.39 ± 0.02	5.44	0.23 ± 0.00	1.92	0.32 ± 0.01	1.59
C22:6 n3	0.07 ± 0.00	2.60	0.07 ± 0.00	4.38	<0.15	-	0.04 ± 0.00	9.95	0.09 ± 0.00	5.06
Unreported FA	2.77 ± 0.12	4.34	2.26 ± 0.08	3.35	14.44 ± 0.55	3.81	2.52 ± 0.07	2.85	1.86 ± 0.05	2.45
SUM FA	26.97 ± 0.37	1.36	23.81 ± 0.20	0.82	182.37 ± 4.95	2.71	31.86 ± 0.39	1.21	11.03 ± 0.20	1.77

STD standard deviation (n = 10); RSD Relative standard deviation (n = 10).