Table 8. Sums of fatty acids and nutritional indices value of the longissimus thoracis muscle from hair lambs supplemented with FA and CTL

Item FA (ppm)1) CTL (%)2) SEM p-value
0 300 0 1 FA CTL FA × CTL
∑ SFA 43.2 44.06 44.71 42.55 1.40 0.556 0.155 0.908
∑ MUFA 47.34 47.72 46.86 48.20 1.13 0.760 0.286 0.510
∑ PUFA 9.42 9.07 8.72 9.77 0.48 0.494 0.053 0.311
MUFA / SFA 1.06 1.07 1.05 1.09 0.059 0.948 0.501 0.613
PUFA / SFA 0.21 0.21 0.19 0.23 0.017 0.788 0.070 0.114
∑ n-3 0.65 0.66 0.65 0.65 0.068 0.871 0.983 0.686
∑ n-6 8.41 8.02 7.75 8.67 0.438 0.418 0.066 0.484
n-6 / n-3 13.70 12.29 12.69 13.30 1.09 0.218 0.581 0.869
Lambs fed 0 or 300 ppm of ferulic acid through the 40-d feeding trial.
Lambs fed 0 or 1% of clinoptilolite through the 40-d feeding.
FA, ferulic acid; CTL, clinoptilolite; SFA, saturated fatty acid; MUFA, monounsaturated fatty acid; PUFA, polyunsaturated fatty acid.