Table 4.

Milk fatty acid composition (mg/g total FA) of lactating buffaloes fed diets containing flaxseed oil and/or vitamin E.

Fatty Acid	No Flaxseed Oil		With Flaxseed Oil		SEM	p Value 1
	No Vit. E	With Vit. E	No Vit. E	With Vit. E		Oil	Vit. E	Interaction
8:0	8.73	5.96	4.49	3.31	0.63	<0.01	0.03	0.28
10:0	17.95	14.67	9.38	13.75	1.32	0.17	0.87	0.26
11:0	0.64	0.83	0.50	0.51	0.06	0.08	0.37	0.41
12:0	22.33	21.72	13.60	17.03	1.27	0.03	0.56	0.41
13:0	0.85	0.64	0.62	0.69	0.07	0.52	0.65	0.35
14:0	98.88	96.50	75.04	70.80	4.41	0.02	0.67	0.90
14:1n-9	7.98	9.56	4.22	6.52	0.69	<0.01	0.04	0.64
14:1n-7	4.20	4.92	3.49	4.26	0.26	0.11	0.09	0.95
15:0	8.02	9.22	5.00	6.43	0.52	<0.01	0.04	0.82
15:1n-7	3.49	3.30	2.85	3.20	0.21	0.25	0.80	0.39
16:0	251.66	259.97	194.45	198.03	9.07	<0.01	0.66	0.86
16:1n-11	0.48	0.50	0.58	0.76	0.05	0.09	0.29	0.40
16:1n-9	1.52	1.73	1.40	1.76	0.06	0.67	0.03	0.53
16:1n-7	14.53	20.39	8.83	10.65	1.34	<0.01	0.02	0.17
16:1n-5	2.41	3.07	2.26	2.60	0.17	0.34	0.15	0.61
17:0	4.42	5.44	3.62	4.54	0.23	0.03	0.02	0.87
17:1n-9	1.41	1.78	1.98	1.21	0.19	0.99	0.56	0.14
18:0	87.82	88.54	118.47	125.02	5.88	0.02	0.74	0.79
trans-11 18:1	5.14	5.87	11.09	11.14	1.25	0.04	0.87	0.88
cis-9 18:1	161.96	195.27	180.72	185.37	7.31	0.75	0.21	0.33
18:1n-7	3.09	4.53	3.61	2.66	0.41	0.42	0.77	0.18
trans-6 18:2	1.52	1.57	3.53	4.75	0.50	<0.01	0.16	0.19
18:2n-6	15.91	20.10	13.41	14.84	8.49	<0.01	0.02	0.17
18:3n-3	3.83	2.81	7.68	12.24	1.45	0.01	0.40	0.20
cis-9, trans-11 18:2	3.33	3.40	4.12	5.12	0.34	0.06	0.37	0.43
trans-10, cis-12 18:2	2.00	1.52	1.40	1.77	0.11	0.42	0.78	0.08
20:1n-9	1.32	0.88	1.93	0.97	0.13	0.38	0.24	0.17
20:3n-6	0.79	0.67	0.40	0.41	0.08	0.10	0.75	0.70
20:4n-6	0.93	1.57	1.58	0.79	0.19	0.86	0.85	0.11
20:5n-3	0.24	0.47	0.21	0.39	0.07	0.66	0.14	0.83
21:0	0.13	0.44	0.11	0.29	0.05	0.36	0.02	0.44
22:0	0.75	0.68	0.74	0.82	0.10	0.79	0.97	0.76
22:4n-6	0.71	1.16	0.85	1.42	0.18	0.44	0.08	0.81
22:5n-6	0.23	0.38	0.46	0.22	0.06	0.77	0.70	0.12
22:6n-3	0.16	0.39	0.69	1.14	0.16	0.05	0.40	0.69
24:0	0.46	0.49	0.86	0.40	0.11	0.43	0.29	0.23
24:1n-9	0.60	0.84	1.12	0.69	0.09	0.33	0.60	0.09

¹ Probability of significant factorial effects. Effects tested were as follows: Oil = flaxseed oil supplementation; Vit. E = vitamin E supplementation; Interaction = interaction between flaxseed oil and vitamin E.