Porcine Health Management

Table 4 Fatty acid profile and dietary indices

From: Influence of an increased content of pea and yellow lupin protein in the diet of pigs on meat quality

Fatty acid (% of total FA)	Feeding group
Fatty acid (% of total FA)	C	E1	E2	SEM	P <
SFA¹
Lauric (C12:0)	0.424	0.421	0.386	0.029	0.839
Myristic (C14:0)	1.316	1.186	1.136	0.041	0.183
Pentadecanoic (C15:0)	0.367	0.313	0.348	0.017	0.422
Palmitic (C16:0)	18.990	19.026	19.227	0.194	0.870
Margaric (C17:0)	0.401	0.335	0.344	0.017	0.235
Stearic (C18:0)	9.535	9.753	9.887	0.146	0.616
Total SFA	44.022	43.630	43.302	0.365	0.369
MUFA²
Palmitoleic (C16:1n-7)	3.222	2.844^a	3.279^b	0.070	0.019
Oleic (C18:1n-9)	33.712	34.265	35.216	0.386	0.278
C18:1n-7	3.470	3.321	3.575	0.050	0.115
Eicosenoic (C20:1n-9)	0.669	0.674	0.661	0.011	0.892
Total MUFA	43.251	42.957	44.577	0.411	0.233
PUFA³
Linoleic (C18:2n-6)	7.731	8.784	7.573	0.241	0.081
Alpha-linolenic (C18:3n-3)	0.601	0.720	0.581	0.035	0.228
Eikosadienoic (C20:2n-6)	0.392	0.345	0.360	0.015	0.452
Eicosatrienoic (C20:3n-6)	0.335	0.311	0.344	0.018	0.477
Arachidonic (C20:4n-6)	1.358	1.314	1.514	0.046	0.182
EPA (C20:5n-3)	0.484	0.402	0.379	0.025	0.196
DHA (C22:6n-3)	0.509	0.366	0.452	0.027	0.098
Total PUFA	12.727	13.413	12.121	0.284	0.395
Indices
Total PUFAn-6	10.657	11.423	10.527	0.253	0.299
Total PUFA n-3	1.930	1.798	1.757	0.075	0.619
PUFA n-6/PUFA n-3	6.352	6.812	6.221	0.305	0.714
AI⁴	0.444	0.432	0.427	0.007	0.622
TI⁵	0.768	0.764	0.777	0.011	0.893
SFA/uSFA⁶	0.786	0.774	0.764	0.012	0.446

^(a⁻^b) Row means with different superscripts differ significantly at P < 0.05
¹SFA saturated fatty acid, ²MUFA monounsaturated fatty acid, ³PUFA polyunsaturated fatty acid, ⁴AI atherogenic index, ⁵TI thrombogenic index, ⁶uSFA unsaturated fatty acid

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