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Table 3 Effects of high-grain diet (HG) or conventional diet (CON) on milk fatty acid proportions1

From: Effects of high-grain diet feeding on fatty acid profiles in milk, blood, muscle, and adipose tissue, and transcriptional expression of lipid-related genes in muscle and adipose tissue of dairy cows

Item

CON

HG

SEM

P-value

C4:0

1.13

1.40

0.12

0.263

C6:0

1.26

1.46

0.10

0.354

C8:0

0.84

0.95

0.06

0.433

C10:0

3.13

3.67

0.14

0.064

C11:0

0.74

1.04

0.08

0.064

C12:0

4.33

5.59

0.27

0.013

C13:0

0.60

0.88

0.09

0.132

C14:0

12.92

14.42

0.55

0.186

C14:1 cis9

2.22

3.06

0.29

0.150

C15:0

3.15

3.94

0.28

0.185

C16:0

22.29

24.04

0.83

0.315

C16:1 cis9

4.02

4.85

0.24

0.094

C17:0

1.79

1.25

0.13

0.036

C17:1 trans10

1.25

1.39

0.10

0.546

C18:0

11.67

7.79

1.14

0.091

C18:1 trans9

0.50

0.44

0.07

0.663

C18:1 cis9

19.90

14.00

1.71

0.105

C18:2 trans9,12

0.16

0.23

0.02

0.195

C18:2 cis9,12

5.65

7.06

0.44

0.122

C20:0

0.60

0.49

0.06

0.353

C20 cis11

0.85

0.87

0.05

0.895

C20:3 cis8,11,14

0.35

0.35

0.03

0.983

C20:3 cis11,14,17

0.64

0.85

0.07

0.161

SFA

64.45

66.91

1.33

0.387

UFA

35.55

33.09

1.33

0.387

MUFA

28.74

24.60

1.42

0.172

PUFA

6.81

8.49

0.53

0.123

C ≤ 16

56.62

65.29

2.26

0.048

C > 16

43.38

34.71

2.26

0.048

  1. SEM Standard error of the mean between the two treatments, SFA Saturated fatty acid, UFA Unsaturated fatty acid, MUFA Monounsaturated fatty acids, PUFA Polyunsaturated fatty acids
  2. 1g/100 g of total fatty acid