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Table 5 Effects of sodium nitrate on milk fatty acids profile in water buffaloes

From: Sodium nitrate has no detrimental effect on milk fatty acid profile and rumen bacterial population in water buffaloes

Fatty acids, ppm

Sodium nitrate, g/kg/d

SE

P

0

0.11

0.22

0.44

C8:0

419.82

344.75

360.24

492.07

27.84

0.229

C10:0

936.66

750.84

851.50

1088.90

60.16

0.238

C11:0

2.87

0.98

3.67

0.99

0.78

0.519

C12:0

1239.70

1023.70

1171.50

1426.90

71.30

0.250

C13:0

41.36

32.06

42.15

40.24

1.95

0.236

C14:0

4874.8ab

4563.6a

4907.30ab

6132.0b

213.01

0.045

C14:1 n5

394.40

394.14

388.84

452.03

22.11

0.718

C15:0

497.07

419.49

530.41

520.95

20.79

0.223

C15:1 n5

ND

ND

ND

ND

ND

ND

C16:0

20,676

18,459

21,551

25,071

879.19

0.059

C16:1 n7

833.28

818.57

845.94

981.38

48.23

0.616

C17:0

390.61

347.52

410.51

426.66

15.96

0.331

C17.1 n7

87.10

86.42

84.02

95.35

5.37

0.893

C18:0

7406.1

6919.6

7617.1

8292.7

216.07

0.156

C18:1n9c

8256.2

7653.4

10,715.00

10,195.00

563.64

0.160

C18:1n9t

1389.3

1244.4

1714.2

1448.9

63.74

0.066

C18:2n6c

909.09

837.82

1134.2

1016.9

58.49

0.302

C18:2n6t

ND

ND

ND

ND

ND

ND

C18:1 t11

1837.8

1074.4

1691.4

1522.6

188.17

0.515

C18:2 t9t11

1733.7

1706.5

1790.5

1858.8

129.01

0.978

C18:2 c9c11

656.12

538.28

765.56

802.16

49.19

0.224

C18:2 c9t11

391.41

342.23

450.63

382.53

30.95

0.673

C18:2 t10c12

20.34

0

0

0

5.08

0.397

C18:3n3

ND

ND

ND

ND

ND

ND

C18.3n6

ND

ND

ND

ND

ND

ND

C20:0

137.78

117.79

146.20

148.01

4.85

0.105

C20:1

46.22

47.67

59.23

54.12

3.10

0.423

C20:2

ND

ND

ND

ND

ND

ND

C20:3n3

40.23

34.31

49.43

42.97

2.46

0.180

C20:3n6

ND

ND

ND

ND

ND

ND

C20:4n6

58.67

50.16

71.42

75.84

4.43

0.151

C20:5n3

0.28

1.92

2.08

2.09

0.58

0.638

C21:0

11.03

6.14

8.76

8.74

1.30

0.632

C22:0

39.27

33.17

44.33

41.35

1.66

0.108

C22:1n9

99.65

126.91

118.62

80.10

15.99

0.740

C22:2

ND

ND

ND

ND

ND

ND

C22.6n3

ND

ND

ND

ND

ND

ND

C23:0

10.73

5.67

12.30

10.33

1.70

0.555

C24:0

23.59

19.98

30.16

26.53

1.46

0.089

C24:1

ND

ND

ND

ND

ND

ND

SFA

36,707.41

33,043.24

37,685.61

43,727.34

1447.90

0.068

MUFA

12,954.92

11,452.11

15,625.86

14,837.88

726.39

0.170

PUFA

3809.81

3511.23

4263.75

4584.92

228.12

0.357

UFA/SFA

0.4667

0.4584

0.5136

0.4361

0.0130

0.191

  1. Different letters in the same row means significant differences (P  < 0.05)
  2. Sum of SFA reported in this table. Sum of MUFA reported in this table. Sum of PUFA reported in this table. Ratio between the sum of UFA and SFA