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. 2020 Sep 3;10(9):1572. doi: 10.3390/ani10091572

Table 5.

Fatty acid (FA) profile, peroxidation index, and indexes related to human health of intramuscular fat of the longissimus dorsi muscle of light lambs fed either a high-cereal concentrate (CON) or a concentrate including by-products (BYP) 1.

Item Diet Day p =
0 6 SEM 2 Diet Day Diet × Day
Fatty acid (% of total fatty acids)
C14:0 CON 3.97 3.94 0.067 0.212 0.088 0.203
BYP 3.78 3.58
C15:0 CON 0.34 0.34 0.007 0.026 0.383 0.646
BYP 0.27 0.27
C16:0 CON 23.7 23.7 0.095 <0.001 0.220 0.349
BYP 21.9 22.1
C17:0 CON 1.20 1.19 0.020 0.006 0.143 0.565
BYP 0.99 0.95
C18:0 CON 14.2 14.4 0.17 0.399 0.179 0.056
BYP 14.0 13.4
C20:0 CON 0.12 0.12 0.005 0.089 0.377 0.257
BYP 0.14 0.13
Total saturated FA (SFA) CON 43.6 43.7 0.25 0.001 0.279 0.170
BYP 41.0 40.4
C14:1 n-5 CON 0.19 0.20 0.004 0.178 0.658 0.153
BYP 0.18 0.17
C16:1 n-7 CON 2.25 2.23 0.020 0.077 0.695 0.490
BYP 2.06 2.06
C16:1 n-9 CON 0.27 0.29 0.011 0.036 0.257 0.985
BYP 0.31 0.32
C17:1 CON 0.76 0.77 0.006 0.004 0.126 0.470
BYP 0.57 0.59
C18:1 n-7 CON 5.74 5.58 0.114 0.625 0.950 0.203
BYP 5.96 6.10
C18:1 n-9 CON 37.8 37.7 0.235 0.251 0.122 0.237
BYP 39.2 38.5
C20:1 n-9 CON 0.18 0.19 0.004 0.002 0.009 0.542
BYP 0.21 0.22
Total monounsaturated FA (MUFA) 3 CON 47.2 46.9 0.16 0.085 0.035 0.450
BYP 48.5 48.0
C18:2 n-6 CON 6.13 6.20 0.134 <0.001 0.036 0.095
BYP 7.60 8.13
C18:3 n-3 CON 0.28 0.27 0.002 0.000 0.043 0.817
BYP 0.33 0.33
C18:4 n-3 CON 0.16 0.16 0.002 0.002 0.076 0.339
BYP 0.22 0.21
C20:2 n-6 CON 0.28 0.28 0.011 0.586 0.112 0.139
BYP 0.28 0.31
C20:3 n-6 CON 0.13 0.14 0.006 0.752 0.017 0.049
BYP 0.12 0.15
C20:4 n-6 CON 1.62 1.70 0.092 0.834 0.015 0.090
BYP 1.42 1.83
C20:5 n-3 CON 0.10 0.10 0.002 0.614 0.617 0.003
BYP 0.09 0.10
C22:4 n-6 CON 0.28 0.30 0.012 0.465 0.001 0.019
BYP 0.27 0.34
C22:5 n-3 CON 0.02 0.01 0.001 0.804 0.390 0.202
BYP 0.01 0.01
C22:6 n-3 CON 0.22 0.23 0.007 0.258 0.001 0.071
BYP 0.19 0.23
Total polyunsaturated FA (PUFA) 3 CON 9.23 9.39 0.258 0.003 0.021 0.076
BYP 10.5 11.6
Indexes
Peroxidability index 4 CON 19.1 19.6 0.62 0.157 0.013 0.064
BYP 19.7 22.6
Atherogenic index 5 CON 0.71 0.70 0.009 <0.001 0.276 0.401
BYP 0.63 0.61
Thrombogenic index 5 CON 1.14 1.34 0.015 0.003 0.157 0.185
BYP 1.02 0.98
hH ratio 6 CON 1.68 0.15 0.017 <0.001 0.785 0.703
BYP 1.90 1.92

1 The BYP concentrate contained 18% corn DDGS, 18% dried citrus pulp, and 8% exhausted olive cake (as-fed basis). 2 Standard error of the mean. 3 All isomers of each unsaturated FA are included. 4 Calculated as proposed by Arakawa and Sagai [67]: peroxidability index = (% monoenoic × 0.025) + (% dienoic × 1) + (% trienoic × 2) + (% tetraenoic × 4) + (% pentaenoic × 6) + (% hexaenoic × 8). 5 Calculated as proposed by Ulbricht and Southgate [68]: atherogenic index = (C12:0 + 4 × C14:0 + C16:0)/(MUFA + n-6 PUFA + n-3 PUFA) and thrombogenic index = (C14:0 + C16:0 + C18:0)/(0.5 × MUFA + 0.5 × n-6 PUFA + 3 × n-3 PUFA + (n-3/n-6)). 6 Hypocholesterolaemic/hypercholesterolaemic ratio calculated as proposed by Santos-Silva et al. [69]: ((C18:1 n-9 + C18:2 n-6 + C20:4 n-6 + C18:3 n-3 + C20:5 n-3 + C22:5 n-3 + C22:6 n-3)/(C14:0 + C16:0)).