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. 2019 Oct 14;9(10):802. doi: 10.3390/ani9100802

Table 9.

Fatty acid composition of abdominal fat pad of broiler chickens according to different fat sources 1 in diet (Experiments 1 and 2).

Item Experiment 1 Experiment 2
Dietary Treatments RSE p-Value Dietary Treatments RSE p-Value
S3 S2–L1 S1–L2 L3 S3 2 AO3 AO2–L1 AO1–L2 L3
Fatty Acid Profile (%)
SFA 29.8 b 30.0 b 30.3 b 32.1 a 1.06 0.005 29.2 29.8 30.8 30.3 31.1 1.14 0.287
C16:0 23.6 b 24.0 b 24.3 b 25.7 a 0.76 <0.001 23.1 23.6 24.2 23.9 24.5 0.98 0.463
C18:0 5.31 5.46 5.17 5.55 0.64 0.779 5.37 5.34 5.73 5.39 5.44 0.40 0.364
MUFA 44.9 46.4 46.4 46.9 2.81 0.661 46.8 y 53.6 x,a 50.8 a,b 48.5 b 46.7 b 2.76 0.002
C18:1 ω-9 37.4 38.5 37.3 38.3 1.45 0.468 39.0 y 45.4 x,a 42.8 a,b 40.6 bc 38.6 c 2.06 <0.001
PUFA 25.3 23.7 23.3 21.0 2.85 0.107 24.5 x 16.6 y,b 17.8 a,b 21.4 a 22.5 a 2.75 0.004
C18:2 ω-6 22.4 20.9 19.7 18.5 2.40 0.069 21.3 x 14.9 y,b 16.0 a,b 19.0 a 19.9 a 2.41 0.006
C18:3 ω-3 2.19 2.06 2.03 1.88 0.27 0.293 2.47 x 1.06 y,c 1.42 b,c 1.81 a,b 2.02 a 0.26 <0.001
UFA:SFA 2.37 a 2.34 a 2.30 a,b 2.11 b 0.12 0.007 2.43 2.36 2.25 2.32 2.22 0.12 0.223
PUFA:SFA 0.85 a 0.79 ab 0.79 a,b 0.65 b 0.09 0.009 0.84 x 0.55 y,b 0.60 a,b 0.74 a 0.73 a 0.10 0.014

1 S3: Soybean oil (S) at 3.00%; S2–L1: S at 2.00% and soybean lecithin high in free fatty acids (L) at 1.00%; S1–L2: S at 1.00% and L at 2.00%; AO3: Acid oil (AO) at 3.00%; AO2–L1: AO at 2.00% and L at 1.00%; AO1–L2: AO at 1.00% and L at 2.00%; L3: L at 3.00%. 2 S3 was not included in the statistical analysis against diets containing co-products. a–c Values within the same row with no common superscripts are significantly different, p ≤ 0.05. x,y ANOVA S3 vs. AO3: Values within the same row with no common superscripts are significantly different, p ≤ 0.05. SFA: Saturated fatty acid; MUFA: Monounsaturated fatty acid; PUFA: Polyunsaturated fatty acid; UFA:SFA: Unsaturated-to-saturated fatty acid ratio; PUFA:SFA: Polyunsaturated-to-saturated fatty acid ratio; RSE: Residual standard error.