Table 10.

Meat FA profile of Bos indicus beef animals offered diets containing whole cottonseed and corn germ (CONT; n = 6), calcium salts of soybean oil (CSSO; n = 6), calcium salts of palm, soybean, and cottonseed oil (CSVO; n = 6), or a mixture of whole cottonseed, corn germ, and CSVO (MIXT; n = 6) as lipid sources

Fatty acid, % total FAa	Treatments				SEM	P
	CONT	CSSO	CSVO	MIXT
C10:0	0.062	0.083	0.043	0.066	0.0152	0.34
C12:0	0.061	0.064	0.055	0.069	0.0056	0.38
C14:0	2.647	2.564	2.599	2.791	0.1336	0.65
C14:1 cis-9	0.507	0.587	0.563	0.594	0.0350	0.31
C15:0	0.318	0.324	0.310	0.356	0.0162	0.24
C15:1 cis-10	0.096	0.108	0.137	0.080	0.0175	0.16
C16:0	23.249	23.178	23.845	24.011	0.5168	0.59
C16:1 trans-9	0.311	0.323	0.285	0.323	0.0118	0.11
C16:1 cis-10	2.286	2.232	2.478	2.484	0.1435	0.50
C17:0	0.810	0.836	0.801	0.848	0.0329	0.72
C17:1 cis-10	0.561	0.482	0.609	0.440	0.0812	0.47
C18:0	17.079a	14.516b	14.719b	16.166ab	0.5849	0.02
C18:1 trans-9	0.293	0.482	0.283	0.291	0.0692	0.16
C18:1 cis-9	34.629	34.305	33.455	35.056	1.0544	0.75
C18:1 trans-10	0.507b	1.097a	0.625b	0.588b	0.0986	< 0.01
C18:1 trans-11	1.423	1.501	1.192	1.455	0.1182	0.28
C18:2 cis-9, cis-12	4.437	5.278	6.291	4.430	0.7647	0.29
C18:2 cis-7, trans-9 CLA	0.052c	0.097a	0.059c	0.079b	0.0064	< 0.001
C18:2 cis-9, trans-11 CLA	0.326b	0.450a	0.299b	0.331b	0.0282	< 0.01
C18:3 cis-9, cis-12, cis-15	0.235	0.263	0.285	0.261	0.0275	0.66
C20:4	0.716	0.848	1.084	0.653	0.1878	0.40
C20:5	0.133	0.139	0.206	0.102	0.0365	0.26
C22:5	0.304	0.365	0.461	0.287	0.0738	0.36
SFA	44.245	41.565	42.371	44.306	1.0383	0.19
MUFA	40.612	41.117	39.629	41.312	1.1260	0.72
PUFA	6.201	7.439	8.684	6.144	1.0233	0.28
n-3	0.893	0.891	0.893	0.894	0.0082	0.99
n-6	8.545	8.585	8.552	8.570	0.6481	1.00
n-6:n3 ratio	7.426	6.949	5.352	7.293	0.8668	0.33
Unknown	8.942	9.879	9.316	8.238	0.9874	0.65
SFA:MUFA ratio	1.089	1.018	1.075	1.076	0.0391	0.59
SFA:PUFA ratio	5.248	5.099	5.302	4.577	0.4545	0.67

^aWithin rows, values with different superscript differ (P ≤ 0.10).