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. 2020 Jul 14;9(7):923. doi: 10.3390/foods9070923

Table 1.

Effect of tissue on fat content and saturated fatty acid (% of total FA) composition in lipids of red deer.

Fatty Acids Skeletal Muscles Offal SE p-Value
Loin
(M. longissimus dorsi)
Hind Quarter
(M. biceps femoris)
Shoulder
(M. triceps brachii)
Liver Heart Kidney
Fat 0.65 a 0.86 b 0.88 b 2.78 c 1.29 d 1.90 e 0.043 <0.001
C12:0 0.03 0.06 0.04 0.05 0.04 0.06 0.027 0.969
C13:0 0.00 a 0.00 a 0.00 a 0.00 a 0.00 a 0.09 b 0.013 <0.001
C14:0 2.23 a 2.49 a 2.27 a 0.84 b 1.01 b 0.45 b 0.226 <0.001
C15:0 0.46 a 0.57 0.61 0.79 b 0.51 a 0.44 a 0.055 <0.001
C16:0 16.19 a 16.33 a 15.25 a 13.27 10.63 b 14.04 1.052 0.002
C17:0 0.53 a 0.60 a 0.58 a 1.57 b 0.46 a 0.93 b 0.050 <0.001
C18:0 13.73 a 14.78 a’ 15.38 a’ 27.27 b,b’ 15.98 b,c 16.86 b,b’ 0.415 <0.001
C20:0 0.04 a 0.06 a 0.06 a 0.06 a 0.09 a 0.21 b 0.019 <0.001
C21:0 0.21 0.28 0.27 0.25 0.16 0.13 0.038 0.051
C22:0 0.16 a 0.15 a 0.16 a 0.51 b 0.27 c 0.37 d 0.022 <0.001
SFA 33.56 a 35.32 a 34.62 a 44.61 b 29.15 a 33.57 a 1.524 <0.001

The differences between the means in the rows with different small letters with and without superscripts are significant; SE = pooled standard errors; SFA = sum of all identified saturated fatty acids.