Table 4 Fatty acid profiles of longissimus lumborum muscle from goat finished on intensive feeding of alfalfa (ALF) or conventional feeding of commercial concentrate pellets (CCP) with low-energy common grasses

Fatty acids	ALF	CCP	SEM	p-level
C12:0	0.08	0.08	0.006	0.3466
C14:0	2.00^A	1.78^B	0.09	0.0061
C14:1	0.13	0.10	0.02	0.1281
C16:0	23.89	22.83	2.07	0.4398
C16:1	3.26^A	2.89^B	0.192	0.01
C18:0	17.12	18.16	1.59	0.3773
C18:1 n9	44.58^A	41.00^B	1.240	0.001
C18:2 n6	4.56^B	6.00^A	0.360	0.002
C18:3 n3	1.71	2.05	0.51	0.3227
C20:0	0.08	0.08	0.01	0.7422
C20:4 n6	1.61^B	3.35^A	0.522	0.0008
C20:5 n3	0.73^B	1.47^A	0.371	0.0137
C22:6 n3	0.10^B	0.21^A	0.061	0.0186
SFA	43.17	42.92	1.129	0.7314
MUFA	47.97^A	44.00^B	1.30	0.0014
PUFA	8.86^B	13.08^A	1.346	0.001
PUFA/SFA	0.21^B	0.30^A	0.035	0.002
n6	6.17^B	8.12^A	1.780	0.1222
n3	2.53^B	3.73^A	0.805	0.0463
AI	0.57	0.53	0.092	0.142

^A,B Treatment means within a row with different letters are different at the p level indicated. SFA, saturated fatty acids, MUFA, monounsaturated fatty acids, MUFA, polyunsaturated fatty, AI, atherogenic index.