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Table 1 Milk fatty acid concentration (mg/L) when comparing dairy cows fed with unsaturated fatty acids (UFA) enriched-diet relative to the same cows fed control diet

From: Dietary unsaturated fatty acids affect the mammary gland integrity and health in lactating dairy cows

 

Diet supplementation

  
 

Non-UFA

UFA

SEM

P- value1

Item2

   

UFAL

Short Chain Fatty Acids, mg/L

11,343

8,035

418.5

<0.001

316C, mg/L

13,200

9,780

416.7

<.0001

Long-Chain Fatty Acids, mg/L

15,282

15,412

467.9

0.84

Unsaturated Fatty Acids, mg/L

12,023

12,397

349.6

0.45

Saturated Fatty Acids, mg/L

28,393

21,160

938.6

<.0001

Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids, mg/L

1,393

1,388

43.1

0.93

4n-3 Fatty Acids, mg/L

269.3

201.7

9.28

<.0001

5n-6 Fatty Acids, mg/L

721.1

652.46

20.01

0.01

Trans-octadecenoic Fatty Acids, mg/L

1,798

2,900

72.5

<0.001

cis-9, trans-11-CLA, mg/L

263.9

368.8

18.80

0.002

trans-10,cis-12-CLAf, mg/L

3.56

6.4

0.46

<0.0001

  1. 1P- value = effect of unsaturated fatty acids enriched-diet supplementation
  2. 2Included n= 28 cows
  3. 316C = sum of 16:0 and 16:1,cis-9
  4. 4Sum of n-3 fatty acids (18:3n-3, 20:3n-3, 20:5n-3, and 22:5n-3)
  5. 5Sum of n-6 fatty acids (18:2n-6, 18:3n-6, 20:2n-6, 20:3n-6, 20:4n-6, and 22:2n-6)
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