Table 5.

Cholesterol content (mg/100 g) and fatty acid profile (% of total fatty acid) of back fat and abdominal fat of 15-years-old emu depending on sex (mean ± SE).

Item	Fat type	Emu sex			Main effect
		Female n = 8	Male n = 6	Average fat type	Type	Sex	Type × Sex
Cholesterol	Back fat	65.6 ± 1.5	65.4 ± 1.1	65.5* ± 0.09	0.0253	0.6041	0.6699
	Abdominal fat	62.7 ± 1.1	61.3 ± 2.0	62.1* ± 1.0
	Average emu sex	64.2 ± 1.0	63.4 ± 1.2	63.8 ± 0.8
C16:0	Back fat	28.3 ± 1.3	26.9 ± 0.8	27.7 ± 0.8	0.4303	0.2116	0.9192
	Abdominal fat	27.5 ± 1.4	25.8 ± 0.9	26.7 ± 0.9
	Average emu sex	27.9 ± 0.9	26.3 ± 0.6	27.2 ± 0.6
C18:0	Back fat	15.3 ± 0.6	17.0 ± 1.2	16.0 ± 0.6	0.1853	0.0934	0.6415
	Abdominal fat	16.7 ± 0.6	17.7 ± 0.8	17.1 ± 0.5
	Average emu sex	16.0 ± 0.4	17.3 ± 0.7	16.6 ± 0.4
Other SFA	Back fat	0.29 ± 0.01	0.28 ± 0.02	0.29* ± 0.01	0.0049	0.3727	0.2389
	Abdominal fat	0.32 ± 0.01	0.36 ± 0.03	0.34* ± 0.01
	Average emu sex	0.31 ± 0.01	0.32 ± 0.02	0.31 ± 0.01
SFA	Back fat	43.9 ± 1.6	44.2 ± 1.6	44.0 ± 1.1	0.9480	0.8855	0.7743
	Abdominal fat	44.5 ± 1.7	43.8 ± 0.9	44.2 ± 1.0
	Average emu sex	44.2 ± 1.1	44.0 ± 0.9	44.1 ± 0.7
C16:1	Back fat	4.13 ± 0.31	3.52 ± 0.25	3.87* ± 0.21	0.0276	0.0842	0.7607
	Abdominal fat	3.36 ± 0.29	2.93 ± 0.27	3.18* ± 0.20
	Average emu sex	3.75 ± 0.23	3.23 ± 0.19	3.52 ± 0.16
C18:1n9c	Back fat	33.6 ± 0.7	34.1 ± 0.8	33.8 ± 0.5	0.9071	0.4258	0.7972
	Abdominal fat	33.5 ± 1.0	34.5 ± 1.2	33.9 ± 0.7
	Average emu sex	33.5 ± 0.6	34.3 ± 0.7	33.9 ± 0.4
C18:1n9t	Back fat	2.94 ± 0.14	2.94 ± 0.18	2.94 ± 0.11	0.3227	0.7684	0.7678
	Abdominal fat	3.05 ± 0.14	3.14 ± 0.14	3.08 ± 0.10
	Average emu sex	2.99 ± 0.10	3.04 ± 0.11	3.01 ± 0.07
Other MUFA	Back fat	0.22 ± 0.03	0.23 ± 0.01	0.22 ± 0.02	0.1425	0.3984	0.6098
	Abdominal fat	0.25 ± 0.04	0.30 ± 0.02	0.27 ± 0.03
	Average emu sex	0.24 ± 0.03	0.27 ± 0.02	0.25 ± 0.02
MUFA	Back fat	40.9 ± 0.8	40.8 ± 0.8	40,.9 ± 0.5	0.7002	0.7406	0.6753
	Abdominal fat	40.1 ± 1.0	40.8 ± 1.0	40.4 ± 0.7
	Average emu sex	40.5 ± 0.6	40.8 ± 0.6	40.7 ± 0.4
C18:2n6c	Back fat	14.1 ± 1.1	14.2 ± 1.0	14.1 ± 0.7	0.7200	0.9004	0.9482
	Abdominal fat	14.4 ± 1.0	14.6 ± 0.7	14.5 ± 0.6
	Average emu sex	14.3 ± 0.7	14.4 ± 0.6	14.3 ± 0.5
C18:3n3	Back fat	0.84 ± 0.14	0.70 ± 0.11	0.78 ± 0.09	0.3041	0.1934	0.8812
	Abdominal fat	0.74 ± 0.10	0.56 ± 0.10	0.66 ± 0.07
	Average emu sex	0.79 ± 0.08	0.63 ± 0.07	0.72 ± 0.06
Other PUFA	Back fat	0.22 ± 0.05	0.16 ± 0.02	0.19 ± 0.03	0.6284	0.1960	0.6309
	Abdominal fat	0.22 ± 0.03	0.19 ± 0.03	0.21 ± 0.02
	Average emu sex	0.22 ± 0.03	0.17 ± 0.02	0.20 ± 0.02
PUFA	Back fat	15.2 ± 1.3	15.0 ± 1.0	15.1 ± 0.8	0.8195	0.9432	0.9534
	Abdominal fat	15.4 ± 1.1	15.3 ± 0.8	15.4 ± 0.7
	Average emu sex	15.3 ± 0.8	15.2 ± 0.6	15.2 ± 0.5

*The same symbol in the superscript indicates statistically significant differences (P ≤ 0.05) for the type of fat.

_abcStatistically significant differences (P ≤ 0.05) for the emu age were marked with different letters in the subscript.

^abcStatistically significant differences (P ≤ 0.05) for interaction type of fat × age of emu were marked with different letters in the upper index.

Other SFA = C8:0 + C10:0 + C11:0 + C11:0 = C12:0 + C13:0 + C14:0 + C15:0 + C17:0 + C20:0 + C21:0 + C22:0 + C23:0 + C24:0

SFA = C16:0 + C18:0 + Other SFA.

Other MUFA = C14:1 + C15:1 + C17:1 + C20:1 = C22:1n9 + C24:1

MUFA = C16:1 + C18:1n9c + C18:1n9t + Other MUFA. Other PUFA = C18:3n6 + C20:3n3 + C20:3n6 + C20:4n6 + C20:5n3 + C22:2 + C22:6n3.

PUFA = C18:2n6c + C18:3n3 + Other PUFA.