Item | Ratio of unsaturated to saturated fatty acids | SEM | P-value | ||||||
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1.2 | 2.5 | 3.5 | 4.5 | 12.0 | ANOVA | Linear | Quadratic | ||
Fat | 87.9b | 90.6ab | 95.5ab | 95.4ab | 98.6a | 2.46 | 0.04 | 0.07 | 0.09 |
C16:0 | 74.5b | 91.0a | 94.8a | 95.5a | 98.7a | 2.56 |  < 0.01 |  < 0.01 |  < 0.01 |
C18:0 | 69.2b | 87.8a | 93.7a | 93.7a | 97.4a | 2.95 |  < 0.01 |  < 0.01 |  < 0.01 |
C18:1 | 95.3b | 96.9ab | 97.1ab | 97.7ab | 98.3a | 0.59 | 0.02 |  < 0.01 | 0.04 |
C18:2 | 96.8 | 98.5 | 98.1 | 99.2 | 99.7 | 0.90 | 0.24 | 0.06 | 0.25 |
SFA | 74.0b | 90.3a | 94.1a | 95.7a | 97.8a | 2.38 |  < 0.01 |  < 0.01 |  < 0.01 |
UFA | 95.8 | 97.2 | 98.4 | 98.0 | 99.6 | 1.07 | 0.24 | 0.04 | 0.41 |