Table 1.

Milk fat and fatty acid profiles in ruminant and non-ruminant species (data from [37,38,39,40,41,42]).

	Cow	Buffalo	Sheep	Goat	Horse	Donkey
Fat (g/100 g)	3.3.–6.4	5.3–15.0	4.0–9.0	3.0–7.2	0.4–7.2	0.3–1.8
	% of total FAs
SFAs	55.0–73.0	62.0–74.0	57.0–75.0	59.0–74.0	37.0–55.0	46.0–68.0
MUFAs	2.0–30.0	24.0–29.0	23.0–39.0	19.0–36.0	18.0–36.0	15.0–35.0
PUFAs	2.4–6.3	2.3–3.9	2.6–7.3	2.6–5.6	13.0–51.0	14.0–30.0
CLA	0.2–2.4	0.4–1.0	0.6–1.1	0.3–1.2	0.02–0.1	Trace
ω-6	1.2–3.0	1.74–2.0	1.6–3.6	1.9–4.3	3.6–20.3	6.0–15.2
ω-3	0.3–1.8	0.2–1.4	0.5–2.3	0.3–1.48	2.2 -31.2	4.0–16.3

SFAs, saturated fatty acids; MUFAs, mono-unsaturated fatty acids; PUFAs, polyunsaturated fatty acids, ω-3, omega-3; ω-6, omega-6.