TABLE 1.
Content of MCFAs and TAGs containing MCFAs in human milk*.
| Country/area | Sample information | MCFAs 8:0-14:0 |
TAGs containing 8:0-14:0 | Ref. |
| Wuxi, China | Pretermmature milk, n = 30 | 9.30 | 29.16 | (4) |
| Full-termmature milk, n = 30 | 8.70 | 29.88 | ||
| Zhengzhou, China | Mature milk, n = 30 | 11.26 | 40.09 | (36) |
| Wuhan, China | Mature milk, n = 30 | 8.51 | 31.32 | |
| Harbin, China | Mature milk, n = 30 | 7.54 | 31.77 | |
| Wuxi, China | Colostrum, n = 103 | 8.04 | 22.57 | (22, 32) |
| Transitional milk, n = 103 | 13.65 | 34.73 | ||
| Mature milk, n = 103 | 12.10 | 31.90 | ||
| Beijing, China | Colostrum, n = 126 | 7.43 | 16.95 | (24) |
| Mature milk, n = 40 | 10.32 | 22.54 | ||
| Hubei, China | Transitional milk, n = 9 | – | 27.10 | (33) |
| Sichuan, China | Transitional milk, n = 8 | – | 31.53 | |
| Beijing, China | Transitional milk, n = 10 | – | 28.29 | |
| Hubei, China | Mature milk, n = 9 | – | 47.11 | |
| Sichuan, China | Mature milk, n = 8 | – | 42.26 | |
| Beijing, China | Mature milk, n = 10 | – | 38.56 | |
| Beijing, China | Mature milk, n = 10 | 8.00a | 31.51b | (31) |
| Finland | Mature milk, n = 10 | 13.27a | 40.54b | |
| Denmark | Colostrum, n = 45 | 10.68 | 31.15 | (35) |
| Transitional milk, n = 45 | 18.17 | 46.20 | ||
| Mature milk, n = 45 | 23.12 | 40.35 | ||
| Italy | Mature milk, n = 1 | 18.57a | 30.80 | (34) |
*Data on human milk for infants < 12 months of age; the values were estimated on the basis of the mean weight percentage (wt%) of total TAGs, unless otherwise indicated. “–” indicated the information was not reported. a Values were mole%. b The TAGs less than.1% were not included. TAGs, triacylglycerols; MCFAs, medium-chain fatty acids.