Effects of dietary supplementation with Acacia mearnsii tannin extract on carcass characteristics and meat quality of lambs

Table 5 The effects of supplementing with Acacia mearnsii tannin extracts on intramuscular fatty acid profile (w/w%) of South Africa Dohne Merino ram lambs

Fatty acids	Treatment				SEM^d	p-value
Fatty acids	Control	Monensin^a	CT^b	ECT^c	SEM^d	p-value
C10:0	0.11	0.12	0.12	0.12	0.01	0.59
C12:0	0.10	0.10	0.15	0.10	0.02	0.06
C14:0	2.20	2.40	2.58	2.36	0.11	0.18
C16:0	27.2	28.5	28.0	27.9	0.46	0.13
C17:0	1.07	0.99	0.99	0.92	0.03	0.21
C18:0	17.7	17.7	16.4	17.6	0.56	0.62
C20:0	0.07	0.08	0.07	0.07	0.01	0.39
C21:0	0.30	0.28	0.35	0.35	0.02	0.03
C22:0	0.18	0.17	0.16	0.20	0.02	0.12
C24:0	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.01	0.52
Total SFA^e	48.8	50.3	48.8	49.7	0.29	0.34
C14:1	0.06	0.06	0.07	0.06	0.01	0.49
C16:1	1.37	1.52	1.36	1.49	0.08	0.55
C18:1n9c	45.1	43.9	45.0	43.6	0.63	0.29
C20:1	0.05	0.04	0.05	0.05	0.01	0.38
C24:1	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.01	0.77
Total MUFA^f	46.5	45.5	46.5	45.3	0.34	0.57
C18:2n6t	0.17^h,i	0.15^b	0.18^h,i	0.19^h	0.01	0.04
C18:2n6c	3.07	2.77	3.21	3.41	0.22	0.21
C18:3n3	0.28^i,j	0.24^c	0.32^h	0.29^h,i	0.02	< .001
C18:3n6	0.03	0.02	0.03	0.03	0.00	0.21
C20:2	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.00	0.98
C20:3n6	0.07	0.06	0.06	0.08	0.01	0.25
C204n6	0.90	0.76	0.77	0.97	0.09	0.38
C20:5n3	0.03	0.04	0.05	0.04	0.01	0.09
C22:6n3	0.04^h,i	0.02ⁱ	0.03^h,i	0.05^h	0.01	0.04
Total PUFA^g	4.63	4.13	4.70	5.10	0.19	0.71

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