Table 4.

Fatty acid composition of meat of C. idella fed either with AP or with GD diet¹

Fatty acid, %	AP	GD	Significance
C8.0	0.34 ± 0.06ª	0.14 ± 0.00b	0.0007
C10:0	0.19 ± 0.04ª	0.05 ± 0.01b	0.0005
C12:0	0.12 ± 0.01ª	0.04 ± 0.00b	<0.0001
C14:0	1.36 ± 0.14b	1.69 ± 0.05b	0.0094
C15:0	0.77 ± 0.04ª	0.29 ± 0.08b	<0.0001
C16:0	13.69 ± 0.26b	15.62 ± 0.20a	<0.0001
C17:0	0.43 ± 0.03ª	0.11 ± 0.02b	<0.0001
C18:0	2.68 ± 0.33b	4.56 ± 0.15a	<0.0001
C20:0	0.41 ± 0.09	0.48 ± 0.11	NS
C22:0	1.49 ± 0.18	2.10 ± 0.62	NS
Total SFA	21.47 ± 0.50b	25.09 ± 0.66a	0.0001
C14:1 cis 9	0.18 ± 0.02ª	0.11 ± 0.07b	0.0359
C16:1 trans 9	0.40 ± 0.06ª	0.15 ± 0.04b	0.0019
C16:1 cis 7	0.53 ± 0.08	0.46 ± 0.05	NS 2
C16:1 cis 9	4.55 ± 0.42b	5.71 ± 0.01ª	0.0120
C17:1 cis 10	0.18 ± 0.03ª	0.12 ± 1.23b	0.0033
C18:1 n-9	21.29 ± 0.66b	25.91 ± 0.31ª	0.0006
C18:1 cis 11 n-7	2.70 ± 0.18	2.86 ± 0.01	NS
C22:1 n-9	0.30 ± 0.09ª	0.09 ± 1.51b	0.029
Total MUFA	30.13 ± 0.86b	35.35 ± 0.07a	0.0009
C18:2 n-6	17.88 ± 0.26b	29.66 ± 0.24ª	<0.0001
C18:3 n-6	0.57 ± 0.03ª	0.24 ± 0.09b	0.0025
C18:3 n-3	3.52 ± 0.10ª	2.50 ± 0.37b	<0.0001
Total C18 PUFA	21.97 ± 0.22b	32.40 ± 0.48ª	<0.0001
C20:4 n-6	4.51 ± 0.37	5.09 ± 0.38	NS
C20:5 n-3	0.38 ± 0.04ª	0.12 ± 0.03b	<0.0001
C22:4 n-6	2.14 ± 0.14b	2.57 ± 0.02ª	0.0009
C22:5 n-3	0.40 ± 0.06ª	0.19 ± 0.02b	0.0003
C22:6 n-3	3.58 ± 0.32ª	1.02 ± 0.04b	<0.0001
Total HUFA	11.01 ± 0.25a	8.99 ± 0.33b	0.0001
n-3/n-6	0.31 ± 0.02a	0.10 ± 0.01b	<0.0001

¹Values are means ± standard deviation, (n = 12 per group).

² NS, non significant.

^a,bDifferent superscript letters in columns denote statistical differences (P < 0.05)..