Table 2.
Oil blends used in the experimental diets.1
| Dietary fat | Unsaturated - S |
Saturated - P |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dietary FFA% | 5 | 15 | 35 | 50 | 5 | 15 | 35 | 50 |
| Proportion in oil blends (%) Dietary treatments | S5 | S15 | S35 | S50 | P5 | P15 | P35 | P50 |
| Crude soybean oil (SO) | 100 | 70 | 30 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Acid soybean oil from chemical refining (SA) | - | 30 | 70 | 100 | - | - | - | - |
| Crude palm oil (PO) | - | - | - | - | 100 | 80 | 53 | 33 |
| Palm fatty acid distillate from physical refining (PA) | - | - | - | - | - | 20 | 47 | 66 |
Abbreviation: FFA, free fatty acids.
1
All oils or oil blends were added at 6% into the basal diet.