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. 2020 May 29;10(6):942. doi: 10.3390/ani10060942

Table 2.

Fatty acid profile of feed mixtures.

Ingredients FF Grower Grower + FF Finisher Finisher + FF p-Value
C 14:0; MA 0.47 ± 0.06 d 17.56 ± 0.61 bc 16.87 ± 0.01 c 20.15 ± 0.43 a 18.46 ± 0.22 b <0.001
C 16:0; PA 16.59 ± 0.19 c 21.27 ± 0.14 a 19.94 ± 0.29 b 21.65 ± 0.06 a 20.09 ± 0.07 b <0.001
C 16:1 n-7; POA 0.55 ± 0.05 a 0.45 ± 0.01 bc 0.51 ± 0.01 ab 0.40 ± 0.02 c 0.46 ± 0.01 bc 0.001
C 18:0; SA 4.34 ± 0.44 c 5.63 ± 0.01 a 5.10 ± 0.01 b 4.59 ± 0.02 bc 4.47 ± 0.01 c <0.001
C 18:1 n-9; OA 22.72 ± 0.30 e 26.96 ± 0.13 a 26.35 ± 0.18 b 24.09 ± 0.11 c 24.60 ± 0.20 d <0.001
C 18:1 n-7; VA 1.16 ± 0.04 a 1.17 ± 0.02 a 1.03 ± 0.03 b 0.68 ± 0.02 c 0.72 ± 0.01 c <0.001
C 18:2 n-6; LA 40.05 ± 1.92 a 24.69 ± 0.05 c 26.95 ± 0.48 bc 27.21 ± 0.48 b 29.26 ± 0.40 b <0.001
C 18:3 n-6; GLA 7.11 ± 0.80 a 0.51 ± 0.02 b 0.56 ± 0.02 b <0.001
C 18:3 n-3; ALA 2.35 ± 0.21 a 1.84 ± 0.07 bc 2.08 ± 0.02 ab 1.62 ± 0.02 c 1.84 ± 0.03 bc <0.001
C 20:0; AA 0.37 ± 0.06 0.36 ± 0.05 0.36 ± 0.02 0.35 ± 0.05 0.35 ± 0.01 0.977
C 20:1 n-9 0.90 ± 0.03 a 0.28 ± 0.03 b 0.30 ± 0.34 b 0.28 ± 0.03 b 0.31 ± 0.03 b <0.001
C 22:0 0.66 ± 0.01 a 0.25 ± 0.01 c 0.34 ± 0.01 b 0.24 ± 0.01 c 0.35 ± 0.02 b <0.001
C 24:0 1.31 ± 0.12 a 0.17 ± 0.02 c 0.36 ± 0.04 b 0.18 ± 0.02 c 0.36 ± 0.02 b <0.001
GLA, mg/g FF 2.15 ± 0.27 a 0.26 ± 0.01 b 0.23 ± 0.01 b <0.001

FF: fermented feed; Grower: growing diet from days 11 to 28; Finisher: final diet from days 29 to 35; MA: myristic acid; PA: palmitic acid; POA: palmitoleic acid; OA: oleic acid; VA: vaccenic acid; LA: linolenic acid; GLA: gamma-linolenic acid; ALA: alfa-linolenic acid; AA: arachidonic acid. a, b, c, d, e Means in a row with a different superscript letter are statistically different (Tukey’s, p < 0.05).