Table 4.

Saturated and branched-chain fatty acids (g/kg fat) in milk of goats fed the control (CTRL) and cocoa bean shell (CBS) diets^a.

Fatty acid (g/kg fat)	Dietary treatment		Effectsb
	CTRL	CBS	DT	SD
C4:0	1.49	1.57	ns	ns
C6:0	2.10	2.09	ns	***
C7:0	0.03	0.02	**	**
C8:0	2.30	2.29	ns	***
C10:0	7.44	7.26	ns	***
C11:0c	0.26	0.24	ns	***
C12:0	3.19	3.26	ns	***
C13:0	0.07	0.07	ns	***
C14:0	8.00	8.14	ns	***
C15:0	0.85	0.85	ns	***
C16:0	21.50	20.25	†	***
C17:0	0.54	0.56	ns	***
C18:0	8.04	8.83	*	***
C19:0d	0.07	0.07	ns	*
C20:0	0.16	0.18	***	***
C22:0	0.06	0.07	***	**
C13:0 iso	0.031	0.033	†	***
C13:0 anteiso	0.04	0.04	ns	***
C14:0 iso	0.10	0.13	***	***
C15:0 iso	0.24	0.27	**	***
C15:0 anteiso	0.34	0.40	***	***
C16:0 iso	0.24	0.27	**	***
C17:0 iso	0.35	0.36	ns	***
C17:0 anteiso	0.34	0.38	**	***
C18:0 iso	0.04	0.04	ns	ns
Σ SFA	57.75	57.37	ns	***
Σ BCFA	1.73	1.92	***	***
Σ iso BCFA	1.00	1.10	***	***
Σ anteiso BCFA	0.72	0.82	***	***

CTRL, control diet; CBS, cocoa bean shell diet; DT, dietary treatment; SD, sampling date; SFA, saturated fatty acids; BCFA, branched chain fatty acids.

^aTotal number of samples for each group equal to 44 (11 goats × 4 sampling dates).

^bProbability: ***P ≤ 0.001; **P ≤ 0.01; *P ≤ 0.05; ^† 0.05 < P ≤ 0.10; ns, not significant (P > 0.05). The effect of the interaction between dietary treatment and sampling date (DT × SD) was not significant; therefore, significance is only presented for the main effects.

^cCoeluted with C10:1 c9.

^dCoeluted with C18:1 c15.