TABLE 2.

Fatty acid composition of abdominal subcutaneous adipose tissue in Bama Xiang mini-pigs fed the diets with various levels of HMB (% of total fatty acids).

Items	Dietary levels of HMB, %				SEM	P-value1
	0	0.13	0.64	1.28		ANOVA	Linear	Quadratic
C10:0	0.13	0.11	0.12	0.14	0.057	0.310	0.591	0.057
C12:0	0.15	0.12	0.14	0.13	0.055	0.163	0.920	0.055
C14:0	1.88a	1.53b	1.73ab	1.86a	0.168	0.047	0.800	0.168
C16:0	27.92ab	26.76b	27.51ab	28.53a	0.352	0.038	0.222	0.352
C16:1	1.49	1.28	1.45	1.48	0.189	0.550	0.806	0.189
C17:0	0.24a	0.23ab	0.20b	0.20b	0.060	0.042	0.007	0.060
C18:0	19.81	20.77	20.77	19.97	0.462	0.661	0.874	0.462
C18:1 n9t	0.11	0.12	0.11	0.10	0.042	0.195	0.342	0.042
C18:1 n9c	34.80	36.00	35.61	35.30	0.427	0.550	0.679	0.427
C18:2 n6c	9.93	9.79	9.19	8.92	0.331	0.179	0.028	0.331
C20:0	0.31ab	0.28b	0.33a	0.28b	0.064	0.056	0.444	0.064
C20:1	1.61	1.44	1.57	1.54	0.219	0.895	0.888	0.219
C18:3 n3	0.49ab	0.50a	0.42b	0.43ab	0.086	0.062	0.022	0.086
C20:2	0.72	0.66	0.66	0.62	0.120	0.541	0.162	0.120
C20:3 n6	0.13	0.11	0.13	0.11	0.044	0.067	0.170	0.044
C22:1 n9	0.15	0.14	0.14	0.13	0.054	0.672	0.212	0.054
C20:4 n6	0.25	0.25	0.26	0.23	0.069	0.552	0.343	0.069
SFA2	50.44	49.79	50.80	51.11	0.479	0.643	0.369	0.479
MUFA3	38.15	38.98	38.88	38.55	0.453	0.815	0.716	0.453
PUFA4	11.52	11.30	10.65	10.31	0.350	0.149	0.020	0.350
ΣPUFA:SFA	0.23	0.23	0.21	0.20	0.056	0.189	0.034	0.056
Σn6 PUFA5	10.32	10.15	9.57	9.26	0.336	0.185	0.028	0.336
Σn3 PUFA6	0.49ab	0.50a	0.42b	0.43ab	0.086	0.062	0.022	0.086
Σn6:n3 PUFA	21.14	20.77	22.90	21.83	0.453	0.156	0.195	0.453

¹Duncan, linear, and quadratic effects for HMB inclusion levels.

²SFA = C10:0 + C12:0 + C14:0 + C16:0 + C17:0 + C18:0 + C20:0.

³MUFA = C16:1 + C18:1n9t + C18:1n9c + C20:1 + C22:1n9.

⁴PUFA = C18:2n6c + C18:3n3 + C20:2 + C20:3n6 + C20:4n6.

⁵n3 PUFA = C18:3n3.

⁶n6 PUFA = C18:2n6c + C20:3n6 + C20:4n6.

^a,bValues (n = 8) within a row with different superscripts differ significantly (P < 0.05).