. 2020 Nov 15;9(11):1667. doi: 10.3390/foods9111667

Table 2.

Sum of fatty acids (% of total fatty acids) and nutritional indices in fat extracted from cow, sheep and goat cheeses.

	Cow Cheeses				Sheep Cheeses				Goat Cheeses
n	10				10				10
	Mean	SD	Min–Max		Mean	SD	Min–Max		Mean	SD	Min–Max
Σ SCFA ¹	9.38 ^b	0.87	7.64	10.11	14.73 ^a	2.55	10.43	17.15	14.80 ^a	2.80	10.55	18.45
Σ SFA ²	59.41 ^a	0.91	58.37	60.81	56.61 ^b	1.94	54.60	60.65	58.08 ^a,b	3.27	52.72	61.64
Σ MUFA ³	27.92 ^a	0.55	27.11	28.56	24.36 ^b	2.08	21.05	28.52	23.66 ^b	2.90	21.41	30.56
Σ PUFA ⁴	3.31 ^b	0.33	2.84	3.73	4.36 ^a	0.25	3.92	4.65	3.49 ^b	0.47	2.99	4.24
n-3	0.48 ^a	0.11	0.33	0.60	0.56 ^a	0.19	0.37	0.75	0.34 ^b	0.07	0.22	0.51
n-6	1.55 ^b	0.08	1.42	1.66	2.22 ^a	0.60	1.00	2.81	2.07 ^a	0.36	1.65	2.45
n6/n3	3.37 ^b	0.81	2.77	4.97	4.62 ^b	2.22	1.14	7.43	6.43 ^a	1.98	4.68	11.14
UFA ⁵	31.23 ^a	0.77	29.95	32.02	28.72 ^b	2.17	25.14	32.98	27.15 ^b	3.06	24.36	34.34
DFA ⁶	41.78 ^a	1.17	40.08	43.51	38.21 ^b	2.43	33.79	42.18	35.37 ^c	4.20	31.30	44.55
OFA ⁷	48.86 ^a	1.27	46.85	50.02	47.11 ^a	2.60	44.17	52.35	49.87 ^a	4.43	42.51	53.73
AI ⁸	1.63 ^b	0.06	1.56	1.74	2.85 ^a	0.30	2.48	3.44	1.78 ^b	0.32	1.12	2.14
TI ⁹	3.13 ^a	0.13	2.94	3.36	3.14 ^a	0.29	2.62	3.63	2.67 ^b	0.44	1.58	3.13
H/H ¹⁰	0.55 ^a	0.02	0.52	0.60	0.55 ^a	0.05	0.52	0.63	0.52 ^a	0.10	0.44	0.75

n—number of samples, Mean—mean value, SD—standard deviation, Min—minimum value, Max—maximum value, ^a,b,c—values denoted in rows by different letters indicate statistically significant differences (p < 0.05), ¹ Σ SCFA—all short-chain fatty acids (C4:0, C6:0, C8:0, C10:0); ² Σ SFA—all saturated fatty acids; ³ Σ MUFA—all monounsaturated fatty acids; ⁴ Σ PUFA—all polyunsaturated fatty acids, ⁵ UFA—all unsaturated fatty acids (Σ MUFA + Σ PUFA), ⁶ DFA—hypocholesterolemic fatty acids (Σ UFA + C18:0); ⁷ OFA—hypercholesterolemic fatty acids (Σ SFA-C18:0), ⁸ AI—Index of Atherogenicity; ⁹ TI—Index of Thrombogenicity, ¹⁰ H/H—hypocholesterolemic/hypercholesterolemic ratio.