Table 6.

Fatty acid profile (expressed as % of fatty acid methyl esters) of Longissimus thoracis et lumborum muscle samples (HCG vs. HFG). Data shown are means (SEM)

	HCGa		HFGb		p‐value
	Female	Male	Female	Male	Diet	Sex	Diet*Sex
C10:0	0.06 (0.01)	0.05 (0.00)	0.05 (0.01)	0.05 (0.00)	0.25	0.22	0.97
C12:0	0.10 (0.01)	0.11 (0.00)	0.12 (0.01)	0.12 (0.02)	0.24	0.25	0.79
C14:0	2.01 (0.26)	2.30 (0.44)	2.25 (0.44)	1.95 (0.12)	0.70	0.87	0.84
C15:0	0.61 (0.17)	0.53 (0.05)	0.55 (0.06)	0.61 (0.18)	0.76	0.83	0.96
C16:0	28.11(0.69)	27.13 (0.61)	27.05 (0.74)	28.55 (1.40)	0.84	0.77	0.17
C16:1	4.81 (0.27)	4.97 (0.35)	5.00 (0.27)	5.37 (0.37)	0.38	0.42	0.74
C17:0	2.94 (0.48)	3.20 (0.63)	4.45 (1.04)	3.08 (1.87)	0.53	0.62	0.46
C18:0	7.04 (0.45)	6.58 0.41)	6.76 (0.56)	7.14 (0.63)	0.81	0.94	0.48
C18:1	30.42 (0.41)	30.74 (0.47)	29.42 (0.75)	28.85 (2.17)	0.15	0.90	0.65
C20:0	0.12 (0.00)	0.12 (0.01)	0.12 (0.01)	0.15 (0.00)	0.17	0.14	0.15
C18:2n–6	17.23 (0.88)	18.13 (0.77)	17.67 (0.74)	17.16 (1.76)	0.79	0.85	0.49
C18:3n–6	0.02 (0.00)	0.03 (0.00)	0.03 (0.00)	0.03 (0.01)	0.93	0.96	0.62
C18:3n–3	4.55 (0.11)	4.32 (0.24)	4.52 (0.25)	4.84 (0.23)	0.33	0.87	0.28
C20:4n–6	0.64 (0.08)	0.53 (0.03)	0.66 (0.16)	0.74 (0.11)	0.59	0.82	0.32
C20:5n–3	0.02 (0.00)	0.02 (0.00)	0.07 (0.04)	0.03 (0.01)	0.03*	0.46	0.67
C22:0	0.41 (0.01)	0.41 (0.02)	0.45 (0.02)	0.42 (0.02)	0.26	0.58	0.44
C22:6n–3	0.88 (0.07)	0.88 (0.09)	0.87 (0.07)	0.93 (0.55)	0.81	0.73	0.71
SFAc	41.47 (0.52)	40.44 (0.71)	41.80 (0.63)	42.06 (0.89)	0.19	0.60	0.38
UFAd	58.57 (0.52)	59.60 (0.70)	58.23 (0.63)	57.96 (0.89)	0.18	0.60	0.37
MUFAe	35.23 (0.50)	35.71 (0.52)	34.41 (0.87)	34.23 (2.35)	0.30	0.89	0.76
PUFAf	22.57 (0.31)	22.89 (0.36)	24.52 (0.68)	24.90 (2.51)	0.05*	0.71	0.98
n3	5.34 (0.17)	4.98 (0.31)	5.50 (0.32)	5.74 (0.28)	0.32	0.65	0.27
n6	17.03 (0.33)	17.91 (0.06)	19.02 (0.48)	19.16 (2.23)	0.04*	0.49	0.62
n6/n3	3.08 (0.12)	3.62 (0.20)	3.51 (0.18)	3.33 (0.23)	0.75	0.40	0.11
SFA/UFA	0.71 (0.02)	0.68 (0.02)	0.72 (0.02)	0.73 (0.02)	0.15	0.62	0.46
SFA/MUFA	1.18 (0.02)	1.13 (0.02)	1.22 (0.04)	1.24 (0.10)	0.14	0.79	0.50
SFA/PUFA	1.79 (0.08)	1.71 (0.10)	1.77 (0.08)	1.79 (0.12)	0.72	0.75	0.62
AIg	24.38 (0.81)	24.92 (1.01)	24.87 (0.92)	24.80 (1.90)	0.87	0.84	0.79
TIh	2.11 (0.10)	1.89 (0.06)	2.01 (0.11)	2.26 (0.18)	0.27	0.90	0.07

^aHigh cereal grains group (n = 9).

^bHigh fibre group (n = 10).

^cSFA: saturated fatty acids.

^dUFA: unsaturated fatty acids.

^eMUFA: monounsaturated fatty acids.

^fPUFA: polyunsaturated fatty acids.

^gAI: atherogenic index.

^hTI: thrombogenic index.

*Statistical significance p < 0.05