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. 2022 Apr 13;12(8):1007. doi: 10.3390/ani12081007

Table 7.

Total lipid content, cholesterol content, and fatty-acid (FA) composition in the breast meat of broilers (n = 10).

Dietary Treatments 1 SEM 2 p-Value
Item Control LA LAR LAE
Total lipids (g/100 g) 1.69 a 1.25 b 1.25 b 1.23 b 0.093 0.003
Cholesterol (mg/g) 0.463 0.561 0.569 0.547 0.0443 0.318
FA composition (g/100 g FA)
  10:0 0.001 0.002 0.006 0.004 0.0020 0.441
  12:0 0.036 0.037 0.036 0.029 0.0028 0.208
  14:0 0.29 a 0.23 b 0.25 a,b 0.22 b 0.011 0.001
  14:1c9 0.023 a 0.007 b 0.006 b 0.002 b 0.0043 0.006
  15:0 0.071 0.082 0.080 0.072 0.0044 0.236
  16:0 15.3 a 13.9 b 13.9 b 13.7 b 0.24 <0.001
  16:1c7 0.34 a 0.26 b 0.28 b 0.26 b 0.014 <0.001
  16:1c9 0.92 a 0.67 b 0.69 a,b 0.66 b 0.062 0.014
  17:0 0.19 0.20 0.19 0.19 0.011 0.874
  17:1c9 0.039 0.024 0.035 0.024 0.0048 0.083
  18:0 8.57 9.14 8.69 9.18 0.394 0.609
  18:1c9 25.6 23.1 24.5 23.6 0.65 0.052
  18:1c11 1.21 1.42 1.42 1.39 0.059 0.049
  18:2n-6 36.7 37.8 38.4 37.6 0.88 0.575
  18:3n-6 0.14 b 0.15 a,b 0.16 a 0.16 a 0.004 0.001
  18:2t9t12 0.29 a 0.25 a,b 0.24 b 0.24 b 0.015 0.027
  18:3n-3 0.55 a 0.41 b 0.40 b 0.42 b 0.025 <0.001
  18:4n-3 0.004 0.015 0.068 0.004 0.0246 0.218
  20:0 0.094 0.090 0.094 0.090 0.0032 0.670
  20:1c11 0.23 a 0.19 b 0.20 b 0.20 b 0.007 0.001
  20:2n-6 0.56 0.62 0.56 0.59 0.036 0.637
  20:3n-6 0.63 a 0.56 a,b 0.48 b 0.55 a,b 0.029 0.012
  20:4n-6 4.59 6.01 6.08 5.16 0.507 0.132
  20:3n-3 n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d.
  20:5n-3 0.025 b 0.097 a 0.108 a 0.095 a 0.0076 <0.001
  22:0 0.039 0.027 0.040 0.037 0.0077 0.615
  22:1n-9 0.004 0.006 0.024 0.000 0.0095 0.308
  22:2n-6 n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d.
  22:5n-3 0.21 b 0.58 a 0.46 a 0.57 a 0.049 <0.001
  22:6n-3 0.12 b 0.47 a 0.32 a,b 0.49 a 0.065 0.001
  Others 3.23 3.60 3.23 3.46 0.332 0.820
Partial sums of FA, g/100 g FA
  SFA 24.6 23.8 23.2 23.6 0.58 0.433
  cis-MUFA 28.4 a 25.8 b 27.1 a,b 26.2 a,b 0.68 0.045
  PUFA 43.8 b 46.9 a 46.4 a 46.8 a 0.48 <0.001
  n-6 PUFA 42.6 b 45.1 a 44.8 a 45.0 a 0.50 0.003
  n-3 PUFA 0.90 b 1.57 a 1.38 a 1.57 a 0.101 <0.001
Ratios of FA
  PUFA/SFA 1.79 b 2.00 a 2.01 a 2.00 a 0.062 0.046
  n-6/n-3 47.7 a 30.2 b 34.4 b 29.6b <0.001

1 Control, corn–soybean basal diet; LA, basal diet plus 15% L. digitata; LAR, basal diet plus 15% L. digitata + 0.005% Rovabio® Excel AP; LAE, basal diet plus 15% L. digitata + 0.01% recombinant CAZyme. 2 SEM, standard error of the mean. SFA = sum of (10:0, 12:0, 14:0, 15:0, 16:0, 17:0, 18:0, 20:0, 22:0). cis-MUFA = sum of (14:1c9, 16:1c7, 16:1c9, 17:1c9, 18:1c9, 18:1c11, 20:1c11, 22:1n-9). PUFA = sum of (18:2n-6, 18:2t9t12, 18:3n-6, 18:3n-3, 18:4n-3, 20:2n-6, 20:3n-6, 20:4n-6, 20:3n-3, 20:5n-3, 22:5n-3, 22:6n-3). n-6 PUFA = sum of (18:2n-6, 18:3n-6, 20:2n-6, 20:3n-6, 20:4n-6). n-3 PUFA = sum of (18:3n-3, 18:4n-3, 20:3n-3, 20:5n-3, 22:5n-3, 22:6n-3). a,b Different superscript letters within a row indicate a significant difference (p < 0.05). n.d., not detected.