Table 5.

Fatty acid composition (g/100 g fatty acid) of yak individual milk.

Item	Control	LAB Inoculation	p-Value
C4:0	4.33 ± 0.10	4.65 ± 0.13	0.078
C6:0	3.58 ± 0.23	3.92 ± 0.21	0.143
C8:0	1.08 ± 0.18	1.31 ± 0.12	0.053
C10:0	2.01 ± 0.22	2.64 ± 0.23	0.002
C11:0	0.25 ± 0.04	0.31 ± 0.06	0.065
C12:0	1.49 ± 0.16	1.20 ± 0.15	0.051
C13:0	0.05 ± 0.05	0.18 ± 0.04	0.022
C14:0	7.06 ± 0.07	5.44 ± 0.08	<0.001
C14:1	0.42 ± 0.04	0.38 ± 0.02	0.094
C15:0	0.87 ± 0.26	1.23 ± 0.29	0.139
C15:1	1.25 ± 0.33	1.64 ± 0.27	0.103
C16:0	23.29 ± 0.68	22.42 ± 0.70	0.261
C16:1	1.31 ± 0.14	1.98 ± 0.13	<0.001
C17:0	0.45 ± 0.25	0.76 ± 0.18	0.066
C17:1	0.88 ± 0.38	1.43 ± 0.52	0.073
C18:0	16.73 ± 2.14	14.17 ± 2.43	0.119
Trans-11 C18:1	3.03 ± 0.08	4.15 ± 0.11	<0.001
cis-9 C18:1	20.72 ± 0.91	24.54 ± 0.79	<0.001
cis-11 C18:1	0.79 ± 0.22	1.32 ± 0.15	<0.001
18:2 n-6	1.48 ± 0.03	1.51 ± 0.02	0.069
C18:3 n-3	0.13 ± 0.01	0.15 ± 0.01	0.054
cis-9,trans-11 CLA	1.12 ± 0.12	0.74 ± 0.15	<0.001
C20:0	0.43 ± 0.06	0.31 ± 0.09	0.092
C20:1 n-9	0.59 ± 0.08	0.44 ± 0.03	0.037
C20:2	0.02 ± 0.01	0.01 ± 0.01	0.054
C21:0	0.05 ± 0.01	0.04 ± 0.01	0.088
C20:3 n-6	0.09 ± 0.01	0.08 ± 0.01	0.081
C20:4	0.17 ± 0.03	0.11 ± 0.03	0.105
C20:3 n-3	0.06 ± 0.01	0.05 ± 0.01	0.143
C22:0	0.47 ± 0.09	0.31 ± 0.07	0.051
C20:5 EPA	0.07 ± 0.01	0.04 ± 0.01	<0.001
C22:1	0.01 ± 0.00	0.01 ± 0.00	0.273
C23:0	0.21 ± 0.02	0.14 ± 0.01	<0.001
C24:0	0.23 ± 0.07	0.46 ± 0.04	<0.001
C24:1	0.15 ± 0.03	0.09 ± 0.01	<0.001
C22:6 DHA	0.08 ± 0.02	0.12 ± 0.01	0.041

Yaks were fed with control and inoculated silages. CLA, conjugated linoleic acid; DHA, docosahexaenoic acid; EPA, eicosapentaenoic acid; FA, fat acid; Long-chain FA, sum of C17:0 to C24:0; Medium-chain FA, sum of C12:0 to C16:1; Saturated FA, sum of C4:0 to C24:0; Short-chain FA, sum C4:0 to C11:0.