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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
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