Table 9.

Effects of Forsythia suspensa extract on fatty acid deposition in the thigh meat of broilers (g/100 g total fatty acids, DM-basis).

Item	CTL1	CTC1	FSE1	SEM	P-value
C12:0	0.04	0.04	0.03	0.01	0.82
C14:0	0.49	0.49	0.49	0.01	0.79
C14:1	0.10	0.09	0.09	0.01	0.96
C15:0	0.08	0.08	0.08	0.01	0.79
C16:0	20.99	20.62	20.68	0.48	0.85
C16:1	3.74	3.58	3.64	0.42	0.97
C17:0	0.14	0.14	0.13	0.01	1.00
C18:0	6.91	7.18	7.00	0.40	0.93
C18:1n9c	32.86	31.79	32.08	1.13	0.67
C18:2n6c	29.06	29.50	29.49	0.91	0.85
C18:3n3	2.42	2.47	2.62	0.09	0.21
C20:0	0.11	0.11	0.11	0.01	0.71
C20:1	0.28	0.28	0.28	0.01	0.64
C21:0	0.28	0.35	0.33	0.07	0.68
C20:3n6	0.33	0.39	0.37	0.06	0.64
C20:4n6	1.21	1.62	1.43	0.43	0.81
C20:3n3	0.03	0.04	0.04	0.01	0.32
C20:5n3	0.20	0.22	0.22	0.02	0.68
C22:0	0.06	0.06	0.06	0.01	0.83
C24:0	0.35	0.48	0.43	0.13	0.74
C22:6n3	0.31	0.40	0.34	0.10	0.78
C24:1	0.04	0.06	0.06	0.02	0.68
SFA2	29.44	29.56	29.35	0.34	0.94
MUFA2	37.01	35.80	36.16	1.38	0.74
PUFA2	33.55	34.64	34.50	0.02	0.72
n-6 PUFA	30.60	31.52	31.29	1.21	0.78
n-3 PUFA	2.95	3.12	3.21	0.16	0.30
n-6/n-3 PUFA2	10.37a	10.15a,b	9.78b	0.15	0.02
P/S2	1.14	1.17	1.17	0.05	0.75

^a,bDifferent superscripts within a row indicate a significant difference (P < 0.05).

¹CTL: control; CTC: chlortetracycline; FSE: Forsythia suspensa extract.

²SFA: saturated fatty acid; MUFA: monounsaturated fatty acid; PUFA: polyunsaturated fatty acid; P/S= PUFA/SFA; n-6/n-3 PUFA = n-6 PUFA/n-3 PUFA.