TABLE 6.

Adipose tissue fatty acid composition (mg/100 ml) of experimental rats from different treatment groups after 4 and 8 weeks of feeding

Fatty acid composition (mg/100 g) plasma	Treatments						SEM a	Effects
	4 weeks			8 weeks
	CON a	Olive50 b	Olive100 c	CON a	Olive50 b	Olive100 c		Period (P)	Oil (O)	P × O
C12:0 lauric acid	8.97	6.62	2.35	11.87	6.9	1.02	0.501	**	***	***
C14:0 myristic acid	6.4	4.94	2.69	8.1	4.98	1.67	0.289	*	***	***
C14:1 myristoleic acid	0.34	0.25	0.16	0.44	0.22	0.1	0.016	N.S.	***	***
C16:0 palmitic acid	25.19	23.58	22.52	25.23	22.46	19.57	0.284	***	***	***
C16:1 palmitoleic acid	7.35	6.33	5.97	8.63	6.16	4.53	0.186	N.S.	***	***
C18:0 stearic acid	2.54	2.46	2.62	1.99	2.06	2.27	0.037	***	***	N.S.
C18:1 n −9 oleic acid	36.43	44.82	51.9	33.28	47.16	60.65	1.23	***	***	***
C18:2 n −6 linoleic acid	6.69	5.51	6.54	3.62	3.84	4.45	0.186	***	**	*
C18:3 n −3 linolenic acid	0.25	0.23	0.29	0.09	0.16	0.24	0.011	***	***	**
C20:0 arachidic acid	0.02	0	0.02	0	0.01	0.05	0.003	N.S.	***	***
C20:1	0.18	0.23	0.25	0.12	0.2	0.27	0.008	*	***	*
C20:3	0.02	0.02	0.04	0.01	0.07	0.08	0.005	***	***	**
C20:4 arachidonic acid	0.05	0.05	0.06	0.03	0.07	0.07	0.005	N.S.	*	N.S.
Total SFA	43.12	37.6	30.2	47.19	36.41	24.58
Total MUFA	44.3	51.63	58.28	42.47	53.74	65.55
Total PUFA	7.01	5.81	6.93	3.75	4.14	4.84
Total	94.43	95.04	95.41	93.41	94.29	94.97

Abbreviation: N.S., Nonsignificant.

^aControl.

^b5% coconut oil + 5% olive oil.

^c10% olive oil.

^dStandard error of means.

^* p < .05.

^** p < .001.

^*** p < .0001.